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DAVID: -- was too old, right?
JIM: Right.
DAVID: Okay, God had promised, hadn't he?
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: Well, who do you think was the one --
JIM: Hey, David, wait one second. I'm sorry
to interrupt you. Has Sita already left?
‘DAVID: Sita left? Sita left? Go check and
see, make sure Site's left. We've got to get this
underway. Well, anyway, we're checking on that now.
JIM : Okay .
[ DAVID: Anyway, Lois got pregnant and guess
who got the blame, Jim?
JIM: Who?
DAVID: Me. Now, this shows you how human
beings think, okay?
JIM: Um-hum.
DAVID: First of all, here I was 22, 23 years
old, and here I am giving Lois and all these people
studies about the power of God and the mystery of
divinity. And Lois gets pregnant. Okay, now, what
happened was that a lot of people rose up. There was
originally branches. It was really Davidians, right?
JIM: Um-hum.
DAVID: And they accused me of going to bed
with her and they accused her of going to bed with me.
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And this woman was very homely and 70 years old. Yoiu
know what I mean?
JIM: Yeah. Yeah, I do.
DAVID: And so what happened was is that I
said now, listen, there's a truth you've got to deal
with here. I says your accusations against me, let's
evaluate this. I says what if I did go to bed with
her? And she has conceived a child, and she doesn't
even have any seed. I says you better watch out your
accusations. Out of one side of your mouth you say you
believe in God, that God created a child in the wombi of
Sarah. On the other side of your mouth you're saying
that if you're Lois your a prophet (Indiscernible) it
has to be from me that somebody's been doing naughty
stuff. Okay?
JIM: Um-hum.
DAVID; They're crazy, aren't they?
JIM: Um-hum.
DAVID: You know, a miracle would take place
if a 70 -year-old woman could have a baby, wouldn't it?
JIM; Right. I, I guess so, yeah.
DAVID: See? Well, no one should have blamed
me. On the contrary, they should have prayed to God.
Okay. So what happened was all hell broke loose, and
hat's when George Roden got into the scene.
JIM: Right.
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DAVID: And he came in and he's waving aroiind
a .357 Reuger, a Nighthawk or a Magnum. And he was
telling people he was going to blow my balls off and he
was going to, you know, all this kind of stuff.
- JIM: Hey, David?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: They got the kids and they're on the
way. So, go ahead and get your next two.
DAVID: Okie doke.
JIM: And I think you said it was Scott and
Chrissy?
DAVID: Okay. So, that's Scott and Chrissy
now? Scott and Chrissy? Jim, could you do us a favor?
JIM: Sure. What do you need?
DAVID: Could you get our line open again to
where we could call the radio station again?
JIM: I, I can see, David.
DAVID: They shut us off.
JIM: Yeah. I'll tell you. I'll be straight
up with you. I, I can see, but I don't hold that much
hope because there's so much, you know, the commanders
have to work on it. I'll tell you, there's a billion
reporters out here. I mean, I think they've got every
phone line tied up plus, a lot of times, you know --
DAVID: What's happened is they just, they
just disconnected our line to where we can only call
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you.
JIM: Yeah. Okay.
DAVID: So, you know --
JIM: Well, I'll see what I can do. I'll
give you^n honest word. I'll see what I can do, but -
DAVID: Are they still going to play that
message?
JIM: What message? Oh, yeah, play the
message on the radio station?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Yeah. Okay, let me, let me get that
taken care of.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Is Phil out there (Indiscernible)? If
I need him, I'll send him in. Yeah, okay. (Talking to
someone else.) The problem with the telephone, David,
is like this is really a normal procedure, you know, to
keep a -- keep the lifeline going, you Jcnow, between
you and me.
DAVID: Yeah, but our other lines have been
cut off.
JIM: Oh, okay. Yeah, I understand. I
understand. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let me see if --
David .
DAVID: Yeah?
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JIM; Hold on just a second.
DAVID: Where'S my -- where's little Koresh
at?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: You've got all
four kids, in that house?
JIM: No, I've got two kids.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: -- transition.
(Unidentified voices in background not discernible.)
JIM: Hey. David.
DAVID: Huh?
JIM: I need you to help me out on this.
DAVID: Go ahead.
JIM: Okay. The commanders got, got the two
kids and they want to change this room I'm in. You
know, I've got to move because I'm in this little bitty
room and I don't have any room, and I've got all these
people in here. And so what they wanted me to do is
move across the way. I'm out at the airport. You know
where the airport is?
DAVID : Right , yeah .
JIM: And they want me to move across to this
other building where there's more room, you know, and
it'll be quiet.
DAVID: What's your number?
JIM: They'll do -- I'll call you with it and
tell you, you know, no problem. But what I'd like to
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do before we take a break is just to, you know, get
those other two kids ready and, you know, send another
car and get that. And then maybe we could take a
little break, and then once I get to the new place.
I'll get back with you.
DAVID: Okay. Are they going to -- well,
like you say, then when the next car comes, can they,
can they bring us in new lines so we don't get cut off
as much?
JIM: Yeah, I'm working on that. I'm working
on that. Yeah, I want to work on it. I'll see what I
can do for you.
DAVID: Okay. Now, now, now, now, remember,
I gave $1,000 to those guys, and I want you to get that
$ 1 , 000 .
JIM: Oh, hey, don't worry about it.
DAVID: Jim, you've got to -- I'm serious.,
JIM: ^ey, let me give -- you got a pencil?
I'm going to give you this new phone number.
DAVID; Okay. Hey, Rach, Rachel, could you
take a, take a note pad and a piece of paper? I've got
a number for you? Where's the pencil?
JIM: (Unidentified male voice in backgrotind
not discernible . ) Really?
DAVID: Where's the pad with --do you see
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JIM; Can we work that, we can help?
(Talking to someone else.)
DAVID: Did you get the -- okay, here you
are, take -- put it on that there -- put it on that
pad. (Talking to someone else.) What is it now, Jim?
JIM: It's 799 --
DAVID: Seven nine nine
JIM: -- 0545.
DAVID: -- oh five four five.
JIM; Okay?
DAVID; Seven nine nine --
JIM: Oh five four five.
DAVID: -- oh five four five.
JIM: Now, I'll call you first, okay? And
so -- until we know it's clear.
DAVID: Okay. All right.
JIM: We're going to send the other car to
the water tower.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Okay, so, can you get Scott and
Chrissy?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: 'Cause what I don't want to happen is
they're switching my room and we're in the middle of --
and the kids, you know, 'cause I've got to kind of, you
know, get off for a few minutes.
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DAVID; Okay, will do.
JIM: So tell --
DAVID; Call ine up as soon as the car gets
there .
- JIM: Yeah, but let's hang on until we get
these other two kids in the car, and then we'll, then
we'll get off, okay? 'Cause -- yeah. You've got --
Who have you got there, Sonja?
DAVID; Probably. They're not back yet.
JIM: Oh, Site's not back?
DAVID: No.
JIM: Okay. All right, let, let, let me, let
me call you in a minute.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: I need to, I need to work this out wiith
the commanders 'cause I, I want to, you know, I want
(Indiscernible) kids in the driveway and you and me
ought to talk, you know.
DAVID; Kids in the driveway?
JIM: I mean I don't want that to happen.
You know what I'm saying? I don't want Sit a walking
dovm the driveway and we're not on the phone.
DAVID; Oh, okay.
JIM; You know what I mean.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: And we have the two children. They're
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JIM: And I'll just -- we'll
for a few minutes -~
just break off
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: -- then I'll get back with you.
DAVID: Okay. Bye, Jim.
JIM: Okay, Buddy, I'll see you.
JIM: Do we have transportation over there?
Do we have transportation to -- no, we're going to get
them over two kids out first, aren't we?
DAVID: Good afternoon. May I help you?
Hello?
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Hello?
JIM: Hello, Yvette?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Huh?
JIM: This is Jim.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Okay, wait One
moment. Do you want to speak to David?
JIM: Yeah, please.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER; Okay.
DAVID; Okay.
JIM: How you doing. Buddy?
DAVID: It's a miracle.
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JIM: Have you got those other kids ready?
DAVID: Are the kids ready? Chrissy and
who's next? Chrissy and Scott.
JIM: Chrissy and Scott, yeah.
-DAVID: Got to -- were you calling from the
new number?
JIM: No, not yet. I'm going to get -- moVe
over there in a few minutes. I wanted to get this done
first.
DAVID: Are they sending -- oh. Are they
playing the message on the radio? (Unidentified male
voice in background not discernible.)
JIM: He's talking to one of his buds, asked
him if they played the message on the radio.
(Unidentified male voice in background not
discernible.) Yeah, yeah. Could you tell me what time
they're going to do the movement, so I can tell him --
(Unidentified male voice in background not
discernible . ) Okay .
DAVID: Who? What? My grandmother? Turn, it
JIM: He thinks his grandmother is on the
radio or the TV or something.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE VOICE: Yeah.
DAVID: Did you hear that, Jim?
JIM: No, I didn't, David.
1 DAVID: My grandmother is on an interview.
2 JIM: Where?
3 DAVID: I'm trying to get the details. I was
4 always told by my family that, that I'm kind of
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€ JIM: Where's your grandmother live?
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DAVID: Chandler's close to Tyler.
JIM: Yeah, yeah, I know where it is. That's
pretty country over there.
DAVID: Oh, yeah. I love that country. I
used to fish on Lake Tyler --
JIM: Oh, did you? Yeah. They've got a
little train runs down that way.
DAVID: How do you spell your last name
again, Jim?
JIM; C-A-V -- C-A-V --
DAVID; All right, just a second. C --
JIM: -- A-V --
DAVID; Wait a minute. The pen just died on
me. Looks like a brand-new one, too.
JIM : Hmmmm .
DAVID: Can you all give me another pen,
please? Sherry, try to get this to write. I need --
Sherry? Sherry's not behind me, is she? Oh, okay
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: I'll connect it
Off.
JIM: David?
- DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Did you get your pencil?
DAVID: Yeah. C-A --
JIM: C-A-V-A-N-A-U-G-H.
DAVID: A-N --
JIM: A-U -- C-A-V-A-N-A-U-G-H.
DAVID: -- A-U-G-H. Okie doke.
JIM: Is she getting the kids ready?
DAVID: Yeah. Are those other kids there
yet?
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JIM : David?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Are you okay. Buddy?
DAVID: Yeah, I'm all right.
JIM: I just heard you groan a little bit.
Are the kids -- I don't hear the kids.
DAVID: You don't hear the what?
JIM: I don't hear the kids.
DAVID: Oh, well, you all kids want to make
some noise?
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2 DAVID: Oh, there's babies all in here,
3 hollering. I keep looking at them the last, last time.
4 JIM: Yeah. You'll see them again.
5 DAVID: Oh, I know. I promise.
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DAVID: Is Sita -- yeah, they're back.
JIM: Is Sita there?
DAVID: Where's Sita?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER:
DAVID: She can come here.
JIM: Yeah, let me talk to her a minute.
DAVID: All right.
Sita: Jim?
JIM: Hi, Sita.
Sita: Yes?
JIM; That went smooth, okay?
Sita: Oh, yes, fine. I just forgot one
thing to give to the guys.
JIM: Okay.
Sita: But I'll give them the next round.
JIM; That's great, that's great. Now, are,
are these next two ready 'cause I've got the car there
waiting, so I wanted to kind of get them out.
Sita; Okay. Is there ladies watching the
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4 Sita: So you (Indiscernible) I, I gave you
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Yeah. Give me the info on these next
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And how old are they?
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How old are you? Eleven --
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Okay. All right, good. Why, why don't
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Okay? And listen.
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to get off the phone for a few minutes, but I'll
be back and, you know. I'll let you talk to them ahd
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Sita: Okay. You want to talk to David
before you go out?
JIM: Yeah, let me have David. You walk them
out right now, okay?
Sita: Okay.
JIM: 'Cause the car's waiting and I need to
get the word.
Sita: Okay.
JIM: Okay, Sita. Thanks.
DAVID: Hello.
JIM; Hey, Buddy, she, she does a good job.
DAVID: Oh, so they're going to open our
telephone lines up now?
JIM: No, I haven't got the word on that.
DAVID: Oh, this is what they were saying on
the radio, that --
JIM: Oh, really?
DAVID; Yeah.
JIM: Listen, this Scott, he's 11 years bid?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Yeah. He must be a big boy.
DAVID: He's, he's kind of small. He's thin.
Hey, guy, don't worry about it, okay?
JIM: Yeah, we'll take care of him. Tell him
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DAVID: Hey, you can take your motorcycle,
too. You be sure and tell them that one of the
motorcycles here is yours, okay? All right.
JIM: We move before we -- okay.
-DAVID: I'll be sure and tell him
I that -- when this is all over that the motorcycle's
yours, all right? Okay. All right. Love you. Bye.
Come here and give me a kiss. Love you. Remember all
I taught you, okay? And you're going to be a good girl
now, right? -- yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to lick
it.
DAVID: Okay. All right. Now, Jim --
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: -- make sure these guys are bringing
the kids to you.
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: So you make sure you -- when you,
when you get this that I'm giving to you, you know, and
you open this up, I want you to tell me exactly what's
in it, all right?
JIM: You've got it, I will.
DAVID: Okay. All right. Have the kids
gotten there yet?
JIM: No, uh-uh. They sure haven't.
DAVID: They haven't gotten there yet. She's
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2 I appreciate this.
3 DAVID: Oh, well, I appreciate it.
4 JIM: You know
5 - DAVID: I've always had faith in mankind, you
6 know, that you don't have to always be so beastly.
7 JIM: Well --
8 DAVID: You know?
9 JIM: -- you're, you're a wise man.
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19 JIM: Okay, let me talk to her.
20 Sita: Hello?
21 JIM: Sita?
22 Sita: Yes.
23 JIM: Okay, are they ready?
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Sita: Are they playing the --
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3 JIM: Oh. Well, we played it before. I'll
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JIM: Okay.
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JIM TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON; Losing them.
What'S happened? They're not there. Have you got
them? Dead. Okay. Okay.
JIM: David? David?
JIM TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I've lost him.
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STEVE: Hello.
JIM; Hey, Steve?
STEVE : Yes .
JIM: This is Jim.
STEVE; Hi, Jim.
JIM: Hey, that phone just went --
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: -- off on me.
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Where are they
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2 JIM TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Have they picked
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4 UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: The first two,
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6 JIM: Yeah, the first two we got.
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STEVE: Yeah. I guess they're waiting to
hear that announcement on the radio.
JIM: Oh. We played it, though, a while --
we'll play it again.
STEVE; Okay.
JIM: I mean I'll play it twice for you.
Just I've got the car sitting there and --
STEVE; Okay.
JIM: -- I wanted to get them, you know.
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: He says he'd
like to get them. He's going to play it twice for us.
JIM: Steve?
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: Did Sita take them out?
STEVE: Not yet. She's standing right here.
JIM: Oh, okay.
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JIM: Ready to go. The car is waiting.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: So just have her go. Just go on out.
STEVE: There are four to six guys
camouflaged right now down at the bam. Honestly, no
joke.
JIM: Four to six guys at the bam?
STEVE : Yes .
JIM: I don't know where that is. Is thht
the back bam?
STEVE: Yes, yes. It's kind of a block, a
cement block building.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE: They're on the property.
JIM: Oh, on the property. Okay.
STEVE: They're on the property.
JIM: Okay. Let me, let me check on this,
okay?
STEVE; All right. Okay.
JIM: Hold on one second.
STEVE: All right.
JIM TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Hey, Steve,
Steve said that there ' s four guys at the bam . Check
on that.
JIM: Okay, we're checking.
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2 JIM: The barn --
3 STEVE: Just hold on one minute.
4 JIM: Okay. Hey, Steve.
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JIM: Well, I'll check on it,
but --
STEVE: Okay. But right on the property,
sure, you know, l mean --
JIM: I'll check on it, but, look, Sita has
guaranteed safe conduct.
STEVE: Right, I realize that. But, you
know, they, they always get nervous when, you know -- I
don't understand why those guys are doing that. We
want to keep right on moving with this.
JIM; Right. Well, go ahead and send Sita
out. The car is waiting. In the meantime. I'll, I'll
follow up on that. But, you know, if it's way out in
the back, you know. I'll check on it.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: And, you know, we'll get it fixed. But
go ahead and send her out. Oh, hey, Steve. Steve.
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Steve. Are they coming?
STEVE: Yeah, they're coming.
JIM: Okay. I just found out --
STEVE: Yeah.
- JIM: -- you're right. There were people
there. They were police- I just found out, we just
gave them the word to move back.
STEVE: Okay, thank you.
JIM: I'm sorry that happened.
STEVE: Okay, I believe that.
JIM: They were, were not supposed to be
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STEVE: Thank you much.
JIM: It was a, you know, -- there was a lot
of people involved and, you know, communications --
STEVE: Right.
JIM: But we got the word for them to move
back and -- yeah, we're having a shift change.
STEVE : Pardon?
JIM: We're having a shift change.
STEVE : I see .
JIM: And, you know, we've got a lot of
people here and everybody's moving around, you know,
and
STEVE : Right .
JIM: -- I told David we're -- they're
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kicking us out of this building we're in. We've got to
go across the alleyway here to another place.
STEVE: Oh, no. Really?
JIM: It's no problem. It's just more room,
you know?
STEVE: Right.
JIM: And then we're having a shift change
and there's people moving all around. You know what I
mean. So, I'm sorry it happened, but --
STEVE: Right.
JIM: --we moved them back. Did Sita, did
Sita leave?
STEVE: Just a minute, let me see 'cause she
went down.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE: Yes, she did leave.
JIM: She did leave? Okay.
STEVE: Yeah, she left from up -- she left
from where I'm at here.
JIM: Okay. All right. Here's what we're
going to do. We're going to --
STEVE: He says, he doesn't --he says, I
don't want to rush these kids out of here.
JIM: Oh, no, no. No, no. Here's what we're
going to do. I'm going to wait till they make the
hook-up.
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STEVE; Okay.
JIM; Okay? And then I'm going to have to --
I'm going to tell you we got them safe, and then I'm
going to have to get off 'cause they're switching my
office. _Okay?
STEVE; Okay. How long will that be then
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JIM; You know, half hour, 45 minutes.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: And, and just take a break and, yoii
know, maybe you and David can get some time and talk
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STEVE; Yeah, he said, you know, he was
giving up, he said, the most precious thing in life.
JIM; I know.
STEVE; Yeah, these women. They are, the
women are giving up, you know, their most, you know, it
came from their body.
JIM: I understand and --
STEVE; I know you do. Are you a father,
too?
JIM: Yes, I have two children.
STEVE: Oh, that's good. Yeah, you would
iinderstand. It's hard for him to let them go.
JIM: Well, he's not giving them up. I mejan.
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STEVE: Well, you know what I mean, though,
just even for a, you know --
JIM: A little while, yeah.
STEVE: Exactly. I know, but you know how
mothers are.
JIM: You, guys visit and talk and --
STEVE: Exactly, right.
JIM: -- while we take a break, you know.
I'm hoping maybe David's ministry will go on and I want
you guys to talk about that and us resolving this
thing.
STEVE : Right .
JIM: You know, we can do it --
STEVE: Right.
JIM: -- and he, and he needs -- Steve, II 'm
going to tell you something -- where you can help me --
he needs some medical attention. I'm really worried
ed)out him.
STEVE: Oh, I've been telling him that, but
he keeps on saying he's fine.
JIM: Yeah. Well, you, you talk to him for
me and --
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: -- and just we're concerned. I mean,
an infection or something, you know.
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mean, you know
STEVE : Yeah, I know. I was after him even
an hour ago.
- JIM: Yeah, we, we, we, we've got enough
tragedy. We don't want any more.
STEVE: Right.
JIM: And, you know, you think about it and
talk with him.
I STEVE: Okay.
JIM: We'll try to get him --
STEVE: All right. You want to call me back
then?
JIM: I just wanted to give you the word we
had the children.
STEVE: Okay, so I'll hang on.
JIM: Just hang on for just a second.
STEVE: All right.
JIM: I'm going to check and see if they've
got them.
STEVE: Right. Okay.
JIM: Hold on one second -- all right,
they're still coming I guess. I guess they're walking
down or something. Since -- (Unidentified male voice
in background not discernible . )
STEVE: Jim, I'm just going to --
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STEVE: Pardon? I've got another -- I got a
call and I'm going to just talk to someone here.
JIM: You've got a call?
" S'TEVE: Yeah.
JIM: What is it, a reporter or something?
STEVE: Somebody that I guess we knew from
quite a while ago, you know, one that was here. You
know, are you okay and all that?
JIM: Oh, one of your, one of your people?
STEVE: No. Apparently somebody that knew of
us and, you know, it's just like some of these people
are calling the radio, well, you know, do the right
thing, they say, and, you know, say well, you know,
that's exactly what we've got to do.
JIM: Yeah. Okay, well --
STEVE: Can I call you back? Or, wait, I'm
going to go talk to him.
JIM: Well, wait just a second, because I
wanted to -- let's get the kids done and then I'll get
right off, okay? You know what I mean?
STEVE : Yeah .
JIM; I just want to hook them up and then,
and then we'll get off for a while.
STEVE: Just a minute.
JIM; Yeah, Sita, Sita's out there.
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JIM TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Do we, do we
have them?
- UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: No. They haven't
left the compound?
JIM TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON; They haven't?
DAVID: Okay, they're -- Jim?
JIM: Hey, David.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Where's Sita?
DAVID: I'm listening to this Dobbs guy tity
to explain away everything.
JIM: Where's Sita at?
DAVID TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Where's Sita,
is she downstairs now?
JIM; Okay, they're getting in their --
DAVID: They're in the car?
JIM: Yeah, Sita's getting in her car, I
think.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Yeah, okay. That's what Steve said.
Okay .
DAVID: Well, you -- the guys down at the
tower will probably see them. Where I'm at, I can't
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JIM: Yeah, okay. Okay. And the car's
ori them. Listen, as soon as we hook them up,
okay, which is going to be in just a few -- two
minutes, I've got to get off because they're switching
my office. Okay?
DAVID: All right.
JIM: And I'll call you back. We're having a
big shift change. There's all kinds of police, you
know, that worked all night and agents that are moving
around, ambulances, you know. You know, everybody's
got to go to bed, you ]cnow.
DAVID; Yeah.
JIM: You can appreciate that.
DAVID; Oh, yeah.
JIM: So everybody's moving around and
they're kicking me across the alley, so --
DAVID; Okay.
JIM; -- I'll call you back, you know, in
about 45 minutes. But I want to give you the word
we've got the children first.
DAVID ; Okie doke .
JIM; And then, and then we'll get the
children to talk to you when I get back on, you know,
later.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Okay?
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DAVID: Okay, I'll let you go now.
JIM: Hold on, let me tell you I've got them
first. I don't want to have -- I want to make sure
I've got them, so that -- yeah {Indiscernible) says --
what? They didn't come out yet.
DAVID TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Where are they
at? Where are the kids at? Have they left yet?
JIM: Okay. Yeah. David?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: I think they're out front. Tell
I somebody to tell them to come on.
DAVID TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Tell them to
go ahead and go down. (Unidentified female voice in
background not discernible.)
JIM: Man, you're hurting, huh?
DAVID: Yeah, Jim, it, it hurts.
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: I won't lie to you.
JIM: Well, think about -- I want you to
think about me getting you some medical attention. I
want you to think about it.
DAVID: I'm telling you, you've got all these
guys out there that are just telling everybody that I'tn
a cult leader.
JIM; Well, that wasn't us. You know --
DAVID: As long as I'm alive, I'm a cult
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JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: Now, when I'm gore, see, then I'll be
removed out of the way and people will be free to think
their own thoughts.
JIM: Well, I don't want you to be gone. I,
I want to -> I'd like to see your ministry carry on and
I'd like --
DAVID: My ministry -- I've been in it ever
since 1965 full force. One out of a thousand people,
okay?
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: One out of a thousand are interested
in the Bible enough to learn --
JIM: David, I'm sorry. They're coming.
Site's coming right now.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Okay? I want to give you the word in
just a minute. I just want you to think about, think
about some medical attention. Talk to Steve. He, he's
your right-hand man.
DAVID: I've thought about it.
JIM: He's your right-hand man.
DAVID: Well --
JIM; Listen, you can trust him. You guys
talk about it during the break, okay? For me, for me.
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DAVID: Okay.
JIM: I'm concerned about you.
DAVID: Yeah. See, you don't understand.
JIM: Listen, I care ad>out you. I'm
concerned about you.
DAVID: I know you care ed^out me.
JIM: I was able to get --
DAVID: I know the system cares about me.
JIM: No --
DAVID: And I know -- look, I've -- look, in
1988 I was arrested, all right?
JIM: Um-hum.
DAVID: Let's get real now.
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: In 1988, we were out here, we got in
a confrontation and I praised the Lord when I heard
those sheriff's cars coming, okay? So, when they came
into get roe, we put our weapons down and we was waving
them in, 'cause George is the one that was paying Mr.
Rambo. Now, when they came in, the guys got all out
and says come on over and let's talk. All right, no
problem. They were aiming on us. Once we put all our
weapons down, we came over.
I saw Mr. Thom. I said, you know, how you
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bit, you know. See, those guys knew we was out here.
Anyway, they said now, boys, is this all you got? Yes,
sir. Yes, sir. Then all of a sudden, get on the
goddam ground - - and they started kicking at us .
JIM : Hnunm .
DAVID: And there was ants all over the
grovmd. We got bit by red ante, you know. I mean,
talking e±>out -- now, you know, that's, that's not
right because they were supposed to have come out here
and dealt with George. They should, they should have
never sent us.
JIM: Yeah, yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: What's going on
now?
DAVID TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: A flag? What
about it? Okay, put up -- Well, go ahead and put up
our flag. Yeah.
JIM; You know, I remember -- you were
talking about '88. Hello? David?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM; Oh, you okay? I want you and Steve to
talk and, and think about getting some medical
attention, okay? I just want you to think about it. I
was able to get all these agents to the hospital and
get them taken care of, okay?
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JIM: And everybody that got there is good,
and some of those guys were really tore up. Some of
them were tore up worse than you and they're all doing
good. And I, and I'd like to -- you to think about it,
okay?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM; I mean, it just concerns --
DAVID: I've thought adDout it.
JIM: It concerns me and I want you to talk
to Steve about it, you know. Will you promise mS
you'll talk to Steve or --
DAVID; Well, I've been talking to him all
the time.
JIM: Well, I mean, but about you getting
some medical care. Get his advice, you know, think
about it, and, you know, it's a wise man who can change
hie mind and a strong man who can change his mind. And
I think you're both of those.
DAVID; Well --
JIM; You know, only a weak man, you know,
couldn't change hie --
DAVID; The seven seals.
JIM: There's so much inside you. I mean,
you can do it.
DAVID: The seven seals, Jim.
JIM; Yeah, I laaow, David.
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JIM: I just, I just don't want you to suffer
any more.
DAVID: Well, the children are there, right?
"JIM: Okay, they're almost together, the
agent said. Just a minute.
DAVID: Okay. Well, let me let you go, and
give me a call back, okay?
JIM: No, I want to get them just -- I don't
want any mistakes. If something were to happen, you
know, you, you guys would feel bad and I'd feel worse.
So, let's get them together. I'll give you that word
and then, you know --
DAVID: Okay. Well, let me let you have the
phone with someone else real quick so I can get do --
I've got to do some moving around.
JIM:
Okay, David.
Yeah,
sure.
JAMIE
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JIM:
Who's this?
JAMIE
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JIM:
Jamie, this is
Jim.
JAMIE;
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JIM:
How you doing?
JAMIE:
Pretty good.
JIM:
Okay.
JAMIE:
I think he's
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JIM: Oh, that's okay. I know he's hurting
real bad. Sita's down there with the kids and we're
trying to just --
JAMIE: Okay.
JIM: -- get you the word.
JAMIE: Yeah. Okay, here, here, he's back.
JIM: Okay.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Hey, Dave. Did you get more
comfortable? Oh, Dave.
DAVID: Sorry about that.
JIM: Hey, you okay?
DAVID: Two things I don't want to do, and
that's laugh and cough.
JIM: We got the kids. They're safe. We got
the kids.
DAVID; Yeah, it's my arm -- thanks. Go
ahead .
JIM : You hear?
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: We've got the kids, okay? Everything's
great. We're going to take a break. It'll be good for
you, be good for everyone.
DAVID; Yeah, I need to rest up, get my
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #1: When'd you
call him back? Call him back?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #2; As a matter of
fact, that little speaker over there -- see if it comes
on here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #1: That's what
I'm trying to do here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #2: Check and see
if you can --
RECORDED MESSAGE: If you'd like to make a
call, please hang up and try again. If you need help,
hang up and then dial your operator.
(Unidentified voices in the background not
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #1: We're going to
have the speaker set up -- secondary --
(Unidentified voices in the background not
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Hello,
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Test,
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Hello,
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #1: They're really
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #3; Test, test, 1,
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #2: --on that
speaker?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #1: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER #3: Test, test,
test, test, 1, 2, 3. Okay.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Hello. Hello.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Hello.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Something wrong
with this phone again. Hello.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Hello.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Who am I
speaking to? Can't hear you. Can you call back?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, but wait a
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you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: I can't hear
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Okay. Okay, I'll
call back.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Hello.
JIM: Hello, this is Jim.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Okay, just a
minute .
- JIM: Sure.
DAVID: Hello.
JIM: David, how you doing. Buddy?
DAVID: I'm all right.
JIM: Listen, I've got -- some of the
children I think just came in and --
DAVID: All right.
JIM: -- I'll have them here in just a
second. A little blonde-headed gal.
DAVID: Chrissy.
JIM: Chrissy, that's it. Yeah.
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Yeah, she's adorable.
DAVID: You haven't seen nothing yet.
JIM: She's really adorable. I think they're
bringing her over.
DAVID: Okay, hold on a second.
DAVID TO UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Get Kathy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Hello.
JIM; Kathy? Hello.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER; Hold
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you go get Kathy's brother, please?
JIM; Come over here. Are you Chrissy? I'm
Jim. How you doing? Okay, you want to talk, you want
to talk to your mom?
CHRISSY: Yeah.
JIM: Okay, just a minute. Hello.
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JIM: Hello. Hello. They laid the phone
down.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER; Excuse me. I'm
going right over here with the cord. Want to put it
around in front of you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER; Yeah.
KATHY: Hello.
JIM: Hello.
KATHY; Yes?
JIM: Yeah, this is Jim. Who's this?
KATHY; Hi, this is Kathy.
JIM: Okay, Kathy. Is Chrissy your little
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KATHY: Yes.
JIM; Okay, hold on. She's right here.
KATHY: Okay.
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CHRISSY: Hi, Mommy.
KATHY: Hi. How you doing?
C3CIISSY: Fine.
KATHY: That'S good. They, they treating you
amiSSY: Yeah.
KATHY: Okay. Love you.
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KATHY: Okay.
CHRISSY: I'm all right.
KATHY: Okay.
CHRISSY: I think that was Brian.
KATHY: Brian said hi, Chrissy. Did you hear
Did you hear him?
CHRISSY: Yeah.
KATHY: Okay. I love you.
CHRISSY: I love you, too.
KATHY: Always.
CHRISSY: Huh?
KATHY : Always . Okay?
CHRISSY: Okay.
KATHY: Anything else? Chrissy.
CHRISSY: What's your name?
KATHY: Huh?
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KATHY: Okay. Thank you. I love you.
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bye.
JIM: Kathy.
KATHY: Yeah.
JIM: She's fine.
- KATHY : Great .
JIM: And the Health and Human Services
people are real good. They're looking after her. Now,
was there anybody you wanted us to call or --
KATHY: Scott's got the address and the phone
number of their dad.
JIM: Okay. Scott's got it?
KATHY: Um-hum.
JIM: Oh, with him. And he'll be out? Yeah,
he's coming over shortly.
KATHY: He, he's with Chrissy. Well, he went
out with Chrissy.
JIM: Yeah, okay. How you doing?
KATHY: Fine.
JIM: Not hurt?
KATHY: Oh, no.
JIM: Okay. I appreciate you working with us
on it and sending the children out.
KATHY: I have two more coming out and want
them to meet up with Chrissy and Scott.
JIM: Oh, absolutely. Would you tell me
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KATHY: Remember what I said, God sits on the
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3 KATHY: I love you.
4 SCOTT: I love you, too.
5 -KATHY: Okay. You don't forget that. David
6 loves you. Okay?
7 SCOTT: Okay. Jim wants to talk to you.
8 KATHY: Okay. I love you. Bye-bye.
9 JIM: Kathy?
10 KATHY: Yes.
11 JIM; Okay, they're fine.
12 KATHY : Great .
13 JIM: And we'll let the Health and Human
14 Services people take care of them, okay?
15 KATHY: If you can get ahold of their dad as
16 soon as possible, I'm sure he will be glad to drive
17 right down here and get them, because --
18 JIM: Where does he live?
19 KATHY: Lives in South Dakota. It'll
20 probedDly take him a day to get here.
21 JIM; Okay, Scott, do you have your dadi's
22 phone number? Let me see. Okay, Kathy, we're going to
23 work this out and we're going to try to resolve this.
24 So I want you to hang in there with us and try to work
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KATHY: Yeah, I know you've been real good
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JIM: And, you know, I just want you guys to
hang in there. We'll do --
KATHY: Oh, yeah, we're -- morale's high.
We're all doing good.
JIM: Great. That's super. But we're going
to get a good resolution to this, okay?
KATHY: I know.
JIM: And, let's see, I need to talk to David
about, well, I guess the next children we want to send
out and -- well, would that be Jake and Brian?
KATHY: Are Jake and -- David, are Jake and
Brian going next? Yes.
JIM: Okay. Well, you may start getting them
I ready.
KATHY : They' re ready .
JIM: Oh, they're ready.
KATHY: Got to put Brian's shoes on.
JIM: Okay.
KATHY: And his coat 2uid --
JIM: Okay.
KATHY; -- he'll be ready.
JIM: Tell me when — i'll give you a few
minutes, you know, to kiss them and hug them and all
that .
KATHY: Yeah, we're doing all that right now,
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JIM: Okay, that's great.
KATHY; Just whenever you play the message
again, we'll be ready.
JIM: Play the message again. Absolutely.
We're going to get that done right now.
KATHY: Okay.
JIM: What -- how, how many more kids are
there?
KATHY; Oh, there's a lot.
JIM: Yeah? Ten, twelve, fourteen?
KATHY: I, I, j don't even keep track any
more. I don't know how many have left, I don't know,
you know --
JIM: Yeah, okay. Okay. Well, I'm kind of
concerned about David. I know he was bleeding real bad
and I'm just real worried about him.
KATHY: Yeah, he's pretty bad.
JIM: Yeah. I'm real worried about that. I
don't want him to get an infection or something. And,
you know, I'd like to get him some medical help, but --
okay, are you -- is -- did Sita bring these children
out?
KATHY: Yes.
JIM; Okay. Well, that seems to be working
well.
KATHY; Yes. Just remember she's not a kid.
1 even though she looks like one.
2 JIM: Who?
3 KATHY: Sita.
4 JIM: Sita. No, I, I understand. The agents
5 have already seen her, you know --
6 KATHY: Yeah.
7 JIM: --a bunch of times and --
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JIM: -- she's doing a great job and you guys
are super. This was great. So just keep it up and
keep, keep positive. Everything's going to work out.
KATHY: Okay.
JIM: And you have my word on it now. Just
work with us, okay?
KATHY: Okay.
JIM: All right. Who else is around there?
Is David there?
KATHY: Yes, he's right here. He's laying
down.
JIM: Okay.
KATHY: You want to talk to him?
JIM: Well, if, if he wants a break,
just hang on with you for a minute if --
KATHY: Okay. Yeah, he wants to -get
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KATHY: No. I just, I just want to make sure
they get to their dad, basically, you know.
JIM: What's his name, can you tell me?
KATHY: William Mabb.
JIM: Okay.
KATHY: And, you know, he, he has already,
you know, wanted them in the past, so --
JIM: Yeah.
KATHY; -- he -- oh, what's --
JIM; Kathy?
KATHY: Yeah.
JIM: You need to turn on Radio 1080, KRLB.
We're going to play the message.
KATHY: Okay.
JIM: And I don't want you to miss it.
KATHY: Okay. It's on right over here. He's
going to play the message. Okay.
JIM; What, what, what can I tell the kids
about when you're going to see them again? They're
going to -- starting to be, you know, wanting to see
you.
KATHY: Tell me them soon. Tell them soon.
I'll see them soon.
JIM; Okay. All right. 'Cause, you know,
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KATHY: Yeah, especially Brian when he comes
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JIM: Okay. So, you know, I don't --
KATHY: He'S probably going to cry.
JIM: Yeah. Well --
KATHY: But tell him I'll see him soon.
JIM: Okay.
KATHY: Mommy will come and get him soon.
JIM: Okay. Okay.
KATHY: I know their dad'll take care of
them.
JIM: Yeah. Well, he's pretty far away,
though, isn't he?
KATHY; Well, you know, legal battles, you
know, could ensue, but he, he would end up getting them
anyway. So I'd rather they just go to him.
JIM: Well, okay. We're concerned, you know,
for their safety and, you know, I'm sure it'll be a
little traumatic for them to go with their dad if
they've been with you. How long have they been with
you? Their whole life, I guess?
KATHY; Yeah.
JIM: Yeah. Has he ever had them?
KATHY; Well, for a vacation, you )cnow.
JIM: Yeah. But that's kind of short, isn't
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KATHY: Well, yeah.
JIM: Does he -- has he got a good job up
there?
KATHY: He's in the service.
- JIM: Yeah, okay. The Air Force probably.
KATHY: Yeah.
JIM: That's what's in South Dakota.
KATHY: Right. Rapid City.
JIM: Rapid City. A little cold up there.
KATHY: Yeah.
I JIM: Does he have any other family,
children, up there?
KATHY: Yes, he does.
JIM: Okay. All right. Well, we'll, we'll
sure try to reach him.
KATHY: Yeah, he's, he's, he's very well
capable of taking care of them.
JIM: Okay.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: As soon as you're
done, I've got a call.
KATHY: Call who? I'm talking to Jim.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Are you?
KATHY: Steve needs to talk to you.
JIM: Okay.
KATHY: Okay.
JIM: Thanks for your help.
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3 JIM: Okay.
4 KATHY: I know he will.
5 JIM: You hang in there now.
6 KATHY: Oh, yeah.
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KATHY: Okay.
JIM: -- come through this okay. You got it?
KA'THY: Okay. You just, you just keep doing
your good job.
JIM: All right. Hang in there.-
KATHY : Thank you .
JIM: Okay, Kathy.
KATHY: Take care.
JIM: All right.
STEVE: Hello, Jim.
JIM: Hey, Steve, how you doing?
STEVE: Not good because I was downstairs --
Hello?
JIM: Hello. Hey.
STEVE: He just — his knee hit the, the --
look out, look out there. Okay. Yeah, we're not too
happy because Wayne called me into -- pardon? (To
someone else.) David is really getting upset because
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we were downstairs, the telephone rang, his parents are
on the phone. They were saying a few words to him and
he was just telling them to be cool, that everything
was being worked out, and the phone went dead.
JIM: Oh.
STEVE: They couldn't call in. Nobody can
and you can't call out. David said he's going to stop
the children even.
JIM: Well, I don't want him to do that.
STEVE: I mean, there, there's no sense in
doing that with the phone. Nothing's being said. He's
talking to them about relaxing and --
JIM: Sure.
STEVE: -- trying to keep these people, you
know, you know, they're all upset and they don't know
what's going on.
JIM: Sure, I understand.
STEVE: They want to hear the voices and
we're trying to just say just look, like, you know,
it's being worked out, but, you know, they like to hear
it from us, of course.
JIM: Yeah. I understand.
STEVE: Can, can you have them open up a line
again? I mean, in fact, you know, it's -- is it a big
deal or what?
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® STEVE: Okay. Well, I'm, I'm going to put
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STEVE: Go to them, talk to them, because, I
mean, everything yesterday, I mean, we appreciated that
you allowed us to talk with some of these stations
about what we believe in.
JIM: Right.
STEVE: Here's David.
JIM: Okay.
DAVID: Yeah, Jim --
JIM: David, how you doing?
DAVID: Now, listen to me.
JIM: Okay.
DAVID: You guys are telling the public of
this country that you don't want any blood. All right,
now, I made a deal with you. You tell these boys they
better get our lines back operatable, okay?
JIM; Um-hum.
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killed these little children.
JIM: Okay, David.
DAVID: No playing around any more, okay?
JIM: I know. Listen, just hang --
DAVID: No, you listen. I've been fair with
you, you've been fair with me thus far.
JIM: Okay.
DAVID: But you teil those guys that are
pranking around with the innocent that there's only one
thing that makes me mad, and that's when the innocent
are hurt.
JIM: I understand.
DAVID: Now, I made a deal with you with the
children.
JIM : Right .
DAVID: You tell these boneheads, these
bureaucrats, whatever they are, to open our lines up.
JIM: Okay. I'm going to see what I can do.
I know it's painful being cut off from the people you
love .
DAVID: No, the thing of it is is that we
have the right -- the radio stations are saying they
haven't heard from me since two last night, and you
know the reason why. People are wanting to call. They
want to know some things. People want to --
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DAVID: You have a communication. We've got,
we've got three lines here. You're going to be getting
us another phone. As a matter of fact, we're supposed
to have what, five lines altogether, Steve?
STEVE: We actually have three.
DAVID: Okay, three lines.
STEVE: We had four --
DAVID: So, we can stay -- and they cut our
cellular out, too.
JIM: Oh, yeah.
DAVID: So, you know, tell them guys if
that's what they want is a big fight --
JIM: No.
DAVID; -- then come on.
JIM: David, no, we don't want to fight.
DAVID: Okay, that's what you're telling me.
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: Prove it to me.
JIM: Well, what we've got to do is releuc and
I'll see what I can do. But I've got to be straight
with you.
DAVID: I'm being straight with you now.
JIM; You know, that's going to be very
difficult to do. And —
DAVID; Well, then this is going to be very
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JIM: How many guys? Well, I'll have to
check on that, I don't know. A couple of guys, you
know. But there's no, there's no gun on it. There's
no gun on it. It's strictly bullet-proof.
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PARTY: And he said no
gun on it, it's strictly bullet-proof. I'm sure of
that.
JIM: Yeah, it is. That's the reason for it.
It's not coming in there. We're not coming in, I give
you my word. It's just a change in the perimeter. You
know, if we wanted to shoot at you, we could have been
shooting at you.
STEVE: Sure, you could.
JIM: And we haven't done that, you know,
since you and me worked out that cease fire Sunday
morning, right?
STEVE: Seems like it has been going very
well. That's why --
JIM: Right.
STEVE; — I'm quite surprised about these
new tactics.
JIM: Well, you know, we haven't --
STEVE: More and more inches is right.
JIM : But , look , we haven ' t shot at you . We
want to resolve this thing. You do, too. You're good
men and you want to resolve it. We're good men and we
want to resolve it.
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4 background not discernible.) Whatever happened with
5 getting the kids out?
6 JIM: Well, we want to get the kids out. We
7 want to continue to get everybody out, so we can --
8 STEVE: Here we're talking --We were talking
9 about you and I were working about getting the kids
10 out --
11 JIM: Right.
12 STEVE: -- and we had this problem with the
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15 JIM: Right.
16 STEVE: Now you're telling me about bringing
17 in these vehicles.
18 JIM: Yeah.
19 STEVE: So, I mean, what on earth?
20 JIM: Well, one thing we're doing is we're
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22 STEVE: I suppose maybe you could bring them
23 in and we'll just keep the kids and wait and see what
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25 JIM: Well, one, one reason for it is we're
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they're going to be the ones holding the inner
perimeter. And the ATF agents are pulling back
farther.
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PARTY: He says the ATF
agents are pulling back and the FBI are going to be
holding the perimeter.
UNIDENTIFIED VOICE IN BACKGROUND:
(indiscernible) going to come and kill me.)
CHILD'S VOICE: Are you going to come and
kill me?
JIM; Hello? No, Honey, nobody's going to
come and kill you.
CHILD'S VOICE: Are they going to come and
kill me?
JIM: No. No. Nobody's coming. Steve?
MR. KORESH: Like I told you --
JIM: Hey, David.
MR. KORESH; Hey, Jim.
JIM; What?
MR. KORESH: This is in your hands now,
buddy.
JIM; Hey, it's just --
MR. KORESH: You're the one, you're the one
talking to me. Now, let me tell you, I made an
agreement with you and I told you straight across the
t2UDle --
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JIM: Right.
MR. KORESH: -- you keep these guys away.^
Now, if they go against your will, you can't do
nothing, can you?
JIM: No, I can do something. I'm going to
work with you.
MR. KORESH: But you told me that you was in
charge of this.
JIM: Oh, I'm not the commander. No, I'm not
in charge.
MR. KORESH: Okay.
JIM: I'm just the guy that's talking to you.
MR. KORESH: Right.
JIM: I've got all kinds of bosses and
commanders and generals around here. I mean, I've got
guys with scrambled eggs and gold leaves and badges
like you wouldn't believe, and they're all
heavyweights, from Washington to the governor, you
know. And, and everybody -- I mean, think about me. I
get pressure. I've got the news, I've got the
governor, I've got the vice president, I've got
everybody in the world --
MR. KORESH: You're my, you're my voice then.
JIM: Well, but, you know, Dave, let me, let
me ask you to do something for me. Listen to me for a
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! JIM; I've got a lot on my shoulders, too.
MR. KORESH; Uh-huh.
JIM; And I've had a lot of pressure.
MR. KORESH; Dh-huh.
JIM; And everybody's promising me that
nothing's going to happen to you, okay? Everybody's
promising me that. I'm telling you nothing's going to
happen to you. I'm telling you that. Nothing at all.
You've got to work with me. You are going to see these
things. I'm not tricking you. They didn't show up
without me telling you. I went the ex-- I got in a
battle with the commanders about the guns on there. I
said don't send anything out there with guns. They
took their guns off.
I mean, it's strictly bullet-proof shield,
that's it. And I know you don't like it. I sympathize
with it.
MR. KORESH; I don't mind it. I'm just
essentially saying that, you know, they're just,
they're just, like I say, taking their inches. They're
just, you know --We know who's going to win this deal.
JIM: You know -- But, listen, you told Gary
all day that you trusted me.
MR. KORESH; Oh, I do.
JIM: Was that true?
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3 JIM: No. No.
4 MR. KORESH: Yes, you are, Jim.
5 JIM: No. Listen, I trust you and I'm
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7 MR. KORESH: Yeah, I haven't broken my part
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JIM: Well, I'm not breaking either. We're
not coming in. Our part of the deal was we're not
making any aggressive action.
MR. KORESH: Stay on the outside of the
property .
JIM: Well, I can't guarantee it. I'm going
to try to see what I can do. I don't know where
exactly they'll be positioned. What I -- Here's what I
want you to do for me, okay? Let's just go one step at
a time. Let the -- You're going to see them. Pass the
word to all your people. When they stop, I want you to
call me.
MR. KORESH: Or you call them and tell them
where to stop.
JIM; No, I'm not going to call them. I want
you to call me and tell me where they are, okay?
MR. KORESH: All right, we'll do that.
JIM: All right, you call me and tell, tell
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problem with that. And you look at them good and you
have your men look at them good . There ' s no guns on
them. There's no guns.
MR. KORESH: It's, it's dark outside now.
JIM: Well, you've got night scopes.
MR. KORESH: That's right, but, like I say,
over so many hundred yards, then it's -- then you don't
know what you're dealing with. They've got a .50-
caliber aircraft barrel on it or something like that
behind an evasive plate. I mean, you know, you can't
really tell in certain distances like that.
JIM: David, listen. I've giving you 100
percent absolute guarantee, my word, repeat, okay, no
one's going to take any action. I'm giving you my
absolute solemn promise, that's it. I'm telling you it
won't happen. I'm telling you these vehicles are going
to move up, so that's what's going to happen.
MR. KORESH; So when are they going to be
here?
JIM: When they going to be there?
MR. KORESH: Yeah.
JIM: Soon, you know. Next few --
MR. KORESH: Okay, once they get situated,
we'll give you a call and tell you what's happening.
And then let's start this evacuating children again.
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want -- That's great man, I'm telling you. Just hang
with us. I've got to deal with all these generals
and --
MR. KORESH: All right.
JIM: -- I'm trying to get them, you know, to
deal with me. And we took the barrels off to
demonstrate that we're not threatening you, but, you
know, we don't want any other agents hurt.
MR. KORESH: All right. Well, we'll talk to
you later then, all right?
JIM: All right. Now, you call me when they
get stopped, okay?
MR. KORESH: All right.
JIM: All right, buddy.
MR. KORESH: Bye.
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STEVE; Hello?
JIM; Hey, Steve?
STEVE: Yes.
JIM: Hey, this is Jim. Is David there?
STEVE: Yes, he is.
JIM; Okay.
STEVE: Just a minute.
JIM: Okay.
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MR. KORESH: Hello, Jim?
JIM: Hey, David. I've got this child here,
Jenessa.
MR. KORESH: Dh>huh.
JIM: And, and she wants to talk to her mom,
I think.
MR. KORESH: Okay, wait one second now.
JIM: Oh, here she is.
MR. KORESH: Okay, wait a minute.
JIM: All right.
MR. KORESH: Okay, what I need, what I need
to know, okay, your guys are moving in, all right?
JIM: Are they there?
MR. KORESH: Yeah, they're moving in all
around us.
JIM: Yeah.
MR. KORESH: So they're going to bust us in a
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JIM: No. No, we're not going to bust you
tonight. No, you have my word they're not. I'm
telling you they're not. This, this is straight up.
Hey, would you talk to Jenessa and let her mom talk,
and then you and I can talk? 'Cause she's been here a
while and I think she's getting kind of tired.
MR. KORESH: Okay, let me talk to her.
JIM: Okay. This is David.
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JENESSA : Hi , Da vi d .
MR. KORESH: Hey, how you doing?
JENESSA : Pine .
MR. KORESH; Doing fine?
' JENESSA: Yeah.
MR. KORESH: Okay, that's good. All right,
where, where's your sister? You with all your sisters
now?
JENESSA; I haven't seen Tamir (phonetic sp.)
yet, no.
MR. KORESH; Oh, Tamir ain't gone yet?
I JENESSA: Yes, she's, she's here. I'll be
seeing her soon.
MR. KORESH: Oh, okay. Okay, hold on a
second. Jenessa, your mother, she's kind of, you know,
upset right now.
JENESSA: Okay.
MR. KORESH: She says she'll talk to you all
later, okay? Just have faith in God, all right?
JENESSA: Okay.
MR. KORESH; Okay, so, you know, are you
strong?
JENESSA; Yeah.
MR. KORESH: That's good. All right, let me
talk to Jim then.
JENESSA: Okay.
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JIM: Thank you. Can I let her go now?
MR. KORESH: Yeah, she's -- Jay's upset. She
says she'll talk to them later.
JIM: Oh, okay. All right.
- MR. KORESH: Okay, now --
JIM: Now, David, I'm getting some kind of
disturbing reports that, you know, you might be just
really down. You know, I mean, people are telling me
that, that used to know you that, you know, you're
just -- you might sink real low in a situation like
this. I'm kind of worried about it.
MR. KORESH: What do you mean, sink low?
JIM: Well, I mean, what we want to do is we
want to get these kids out. Then we want to change and ’
get the women out, then we want to get the men out.
And, you know, I want you to make that agreement with
me .
MR. KORESH: Well, like I told you, I said
we're going to get the kids out. Then we'll do some
renegotiating, okay? Because, you know, like I say,
you all are saying that the main guy here that's caused
all this trovible is me, right?
JIM; Oh, no, we're not saying that.
MR. KORESH; Well, come on, Jim.
JIM: No, hey, you're just a guy in charge.
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and everything and, I mean, they've got me painted
bad- Half statements, cpaarter statements, you
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JIM: Well, they do that. I mean, they --
MR. KORESH: I know, but that, that creates a
tenor in the public which >•- But anyway --
JIM: Well, listen, you, you share with me --
Now, I've told you how I felt. You share with me your
thoughts and concerns about what's going on. I mean,
I, I guess I'm -- what I'm asking for --
MR. KORESH: Is what I want to do --
JIM: I want you, I want you to open up to
me, but I don't want you to, you know, i want you to be
straight out. I, I can't, I can't decipher the
scripture. I'm just not a theologian and I just want
you to tell me straight out what are your concerns,
what do you, what do you want to do? What can I do to
help you?
MR. KORESH: Well, where we're at right now
is I want all these people to have a chance to think,
every last one of them, every mem, every woman, you
know. And I want time, I want time for people to
think.
JIM: Yeah.
MR. KORESH: I want time for people to live.
I don't want any more people hurt. And I want to have
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time just to sit here, lay here --
JIM: All right.
MR. KORESH: -- and let whatever happens to
me happen. But I want these people to have time to
where, where I'm gone — You know, that may be asking
too much for you. I know you all want to get in here
and really bust us up quick, but these people here^
they've got to make their own decisions. And if I have
influenced them, you know, then, like I say, if you
just give me enough time because --to let these wounds
take their effect and just let me die --
JIM: But, you know --
MR. KORESH: Jim, look --
JIM: David, listen.
MR. KORESH: No, Jim, listen.
JIM: This has been painful for us. Come on.
MR. KORESH: Jim, listen, listen, Jim,
there's nothing that hurts me more than being called a
cult leader, all right? I spoke the truth but you
don't know that.
JIM; Yeah, but we didn't call you that.
MR. KORESH: I know. Jim, listen --
JIM: You -- Hey, those news media, you guys.
come on.
MR. KORESH: Look, Jim, let me explain
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JIM: Yeah.
MR. KORESH: Jeremiah says wound heal that
trusses from the arm of flesh. So all I'm asking is
that you '--
JIM: But, David --
MR. KORESH: -- keep the guys off.
JIM: Oh, yeah, but let me, let me ask you
something. The position you're taking, okay, without
letting us give you any medical care --
MR. KORESH: I don't want the medical care,
all right?
JIM: I understand, but just listen --
MR. KORESH: I've been doing my work ever
since 1985, all right?
JIM: Um-hum. But just listen for just a
minute .
MR. KORESH: If I'm wrong, people like me
don't deserve to live, okay?
JIM: Listen, listen --
MR. KORESH: Do you tinders tand me, Jim?
JIM: David, I do, but I, I've been a good
listener and I'm just asking you to listen to me for
just a minute. The way, you know, you've got this
wound in there and you're suffering, it's almost like
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JIM: Yeah, but, you know. I'm a Christian
man and I know about Jesus and he didn't kill himself.
Jesus didn't hurt himself.
MR. KORESH: No, he died on the cross.
JIM: Right. And he died trying to spread
the word.
MR. KORESH: Yeah, and --
JIM: And 7-
MR. KORESH: Let me tell you something.
JIM: -- if you're dying, you can't advance
the word.
MR. KORESH: I can't advance the word anyway.
See, with the news media, with the coverage, you
understand, slander is something that's been used --
Look, the best thing to do right now is to give these
people a chance.
JIM: I want them all to have a chance.
MR. KORESH: Yeah. And those who've done
injustice, I mean, you know, they've got to, they've
got to give theirselves over to the judicial system.
We know that. But, remember, I'm the bad guy, okay, as
far as the world thinks. So just give these people
time. You know, send some of these guys home. You
know, keep, keep a perimeter up. You know, always, you
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JIM: All right, David, let me --
MR. KORESH: Give UB time to get hungry, give
us time to get thirsty. You know what I'm saying?
JIM: David, will you be straight with me?
MR . KORESH : I'm straight .
JIM: Are you going to commit suicide?
MR. KORESH; I'm not going to commit suicide.
JIM: Your word? Your word?
MR. KORESH: My word is the word.
JIM: You're going to come out of there?
MR. KORESH: Well, I want to lay here and let
this take care of me.
JIM; Well, that's committing suicide.
MR. KORESH; No, it's not.
JIM: Sure, it is. It's killing yourself.
! MR. KORESH; Look --
JIM; Jesus didn't kill himself.
MR. KORESH: Look, let's, let's, let's get
back on this one thing. God sits on the throne in
heaven, right?
JIM; Man, I'm really worried about you.
MR. KORESH; Listen, Jim, does he or does he
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MR. KORESH: No, does he sit on a throne or
not?
JIM: Sure, he does.
MR. KORESH: All right. Does he have a book
with seven seals?
JIM: Yes, he does.
MR. KORESH: Is Psalm 45 the first seal?
JIM: Well, I'm not sure. But if you say so.
I'll take your word.
MR. KORESH: You can't do that. That makes
you like a cult follower.
JIM: David, you're being real straight with
me and I've just got to ask you this question, okay?
Are you going to let any of your other people kill
themselves or die in there? I've got to know, buddy.
MR. KORESH: I'm not going to do that.
JIM: I've got to know.
MR. KORESH: We are giving a message. We
want to give a message and a witness. I want these
people to have a chance to sit this out, think about
it , you know .
JIM; Well, what's going to happen if you
die? You tell me, if you die from that wound, an
infection, I want you to tell me what's going to
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MR. KORESH: Well, I'm not going to be around
any more, am 1, to influence anybody, right?
JIM: Well, what's going to happen to your
people? Are they going to walk out?
MR. KORESH: We have to see, Jim. Like I
said, I'm not a cult leader. I'm a Bible teacher,
okay? Nobody ever is committed to do what 1 ask or do
what I say, okay? People do what they want to do.
JIM: Yeah.
MR. KORESH: Okay? Now, if you let the
people think, you know, they're all scared around here
now --
JIM : Just - -
MR. KORESH: You've shown them a big arm, you
know.
JIM: You know what I'm trying to do? I'm
trying to let you — I'm asking you to let me look
inside your people and you to see what's going to go
on, because unless you do, then, you know, it's going
to be hard to, to help.
MR. KORESH: Well, I'm telling you what
you'll do. Just give us some time, give us time, yOu
know. That's all I'm asking. Give us time. You know,
you've all done -- you've all been enraged a lot of
times, you know. Don't bum our building down.
JIM: No, we won't do that.
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MR. KORESH: Don't, don't shoot us all up.
Give these people a chance before God to weigh out
whether what they've learned in the scripture is the
truth or, you know, whether maybe they have second
thoughts.' But they've got to, they've got to have that
time.
JIM: David, if you die, you're leaving your
people helpless.
MR. KORESH: Look, they're God's people.
JIM: But if --
MR. KORESH: I'm just an instrument, okay?
JIM: Yeah.
MR. KORESH: I'm just another human being, an
instrument, okay? You don't understand. This is not
no glory thing. This is life.
JIM: But if you live, you can spread the
word.
MR. KORESH: I cannot. They'll lock me up in
the jail for 100 years. You know, they blame me for
everything, you know.
JIM: But didn't, didn't you get acquitted on
the trial you had in 1980?
MR. KORESH: Look, we were innocent. In the
court session, you're not supposed to have a
prosecuting attorney and another friend on the jury.
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hung that. The other jurists knew that I was innocent
all the way through.
JIM: But they acquitted you, didn't they?
MR. KORESH: Yeah. But nothing like this
happened .
JIM: Yeah. But you'll still get a day in
court , come on .
MR. KORESH: Look, I know, and I've also
known about money. Come on. Jim, let's, let's just
talk like this. Let's just say give these people a
chance to think, okay?
JIM: Okay. I'll tell you what I'm going to
do. I'm going to do -- I'm, I'm going to let them to
think, but I'd like you to start discussing with all
your people that, you know, just like you told me,
they're coming out of there. And I want them to get
their minds right, that they're coming out of there.
And I want you to set a plan for them to come out of
there .
MR. KORESH; Look, Jim --
JIM: Come on, buddy.
MR. KORESH: -- like you said --
JIM; Trust me now.
MR. KORESH: -- a plan. Just let me lay here
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JIM: Yeah, but you know, you know something?
MR. KORESH: That may be too much time for
you.
JIM: No.
MR. KORESH: But if you move in too quick,
then these people are going to retaliate.
JIM: Listen, I want your folks to have a
chance in life. And, you know, you know how we were
yesterday, where we couldn't get anywhere, we didn't
seem to get anywhere until you and I started to make
j some agreements about the children coming out.
MR. KORESH: That's right. And like with
Gary last night, I kept telling him over and over what
our plan was, and he didn't seem to understand. So
then, all of a sudden, what happens is that all this
time, you know, we've been sitting and talking and,
and, you know, back and forth, and, you know, that's
why I'm -- You know, we hear on the, we hear on the TV
that all the children are out.
JIM: Oh, well, those TV --
MR. KORESH: There is such a, there is such a
screw-up in communication. That's why I let you talk
to Daylind (phonetic)
JIM: Oh, I know.
MR. KORESH: You know?
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was going to happen, you made it happen. You know,
you've got a strong will, and what I'm saying --
MR. KORESH: And I explained to you why.
Because the children don't have decisions in them.
JIM: I know it, but, but what I'm saying is?
if you could make an agreement with your people that
they're walking out of there and you could --
MR. KORESH: I am not going to tell them what
to do. I never have and never will. I show them out
of a book what God teaches. Then it's for them to
decide.
JIM: David, these, these kids need their
parents and we want everybody to be safe. How about
the women? Can -- Will you let them come out of there?
MR, KORESH: Hey, haven't, haven't Sit a and
them already come out?
JIM: Oh, yeah, but I mean, I mean come out
and actually stay out.
MR. KORESH: Yeah, but the thing of it is is
that if they wanted to, they, they could.
JIM: Well, I, I think they feel like they
can't because you don't want them to.
MR. KORESH: No, no, no, no. Let's stop that
now.
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they wouldn't go unless you sent them. You know what I
mean?
MR. KORESH: Jim --
JIM: David, give me a sign and send, send a
woman with some children.
MR. KORESH: Jim --
JIM: Give me a sign.
MR. KORESH: -- I'm not going to play that
game.
JIM: Come on, give me a sign. Send a woman
with some children.
MR. KORESH: Jim, your psychology's really
rusty.
JIM: Hey, I'm no psychologist, I'm a
policeman.
MR . KORESH : I know . You ' re , you ' re a
psychologist. You have to have the best psychology to
be a policeman.
JIM; I'm a policeman, that's all I am. And
all I m trying to do is save some people from getting
hurt .
MR. KORESH: Okay, exactly. That's what I
want to do. Now, are you going to give us some time or
not?
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6 those vehicles, like I told you, but you've got --
7 nothing else is happening. Listen, are the, are the
8 mothers worried about the kids? Are they upset or
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13 MR. KORESH: Jay is. You know. Jay may come
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15 JIM: Is Jay a mother?
15 MR. KORESH: Yeah, she's, she's the mother of
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19 MR. KORESH: She says she doesn't want to
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21 JIM: Okay. Would you --
22 MR. KORESH: And she might come out, you
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we at?
JIM: You're great, man. Hang in there.
Buddy. Do it, come on.
MR . KORESH : Where , where ' s the van at now?
JIM: Oh, I can get the van there if you want
to do it. Shoot.
MR. KORESH: I'll send a couple more out. Go
get the van.
JIM: All right. I'll get the van lined up.
MR. KORESH: Okay. Well, give me a call when
it gets here.
JIM: All right. You line the kids up and
I'll call you back. Let's see, let me look at my watch
here. I'll call you at quarter to eight, twenty
minutes .
MR. KORESH: All right.
JIM: Is that enough time to hug them and
kiss them, get their coats, and at quarter to eight
have them ready to walk out?
MR. KORESH; Okay.
JIM; Buddy, I'll call -- Man, you're great.
MR. KORESH; Bye, Jim.
JIM ; Thanks . Look , don ' t give up on me .
Hang in there.
MR. KORESH: I'm not giving up on you.
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JIM; All right. Hang in there.
MR. KORESH: I'm just putting my children in
your hands.
JIM: Hey, we're taking care of them, too.
' MR. KORESH: Okay.
JIM: And, listen, if you see --
MR. KORESH: Hey, you know our phone, we
can't even call you now?
JIM: You can't?
MR. KORESH: No.
JIM; I've got to give you a number?
MR. KORESH: No. What I'm saying is that we
can't call anybody now. We asked you to open up some
I lines for us. Now we can't call anybody. Every time
we dial three digits, it goes da, da, da.
JIM: Yeah, Hey, listen, I've got
MR. KORESH: Here's Steve. Here.
JIM; I've got to line these cars up and --
STEVE: Jim.
JIM; Hey, Steve?
STEVE : I wanted to call you, you know, like,
say, five, ten minutes ago, and every time I get to the
third digit now it, it's over, it's done.
JIM: Oh, all right. I'll fix it. I'll, I'll
get that corrected right away.
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something worked out here.
JIM: Oh, hey, my apologies.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: I, I, I just --We had a good
conversation. We're making a lot of progress. And
I've got to take a break to set up a car.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: And, and hang in there with me now.
STEVE; I'm -- That's that I've been trying
to do.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE: I want to.
JIM: Just be patient. I'm giving you my
word everything's okay.
STEVE; Okay.
JIM; Trust me now. Just hang in there.
STEVE; Okay.
JIM: Keep everybody calm. We're going to
get everybody through this.
STEVE; I'm trying to do that.
JIM; You're a good man. Steve, hang in
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STEVE : All right .
JIM: All right, see you.
STEVE : Bye .
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JIM: And he told me he couldn't dial this
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STEVE: Hello?
JIM: Steve?
STEVE: Yes. Jim.
JIM: Hey, how you doing?
STEVE: Well, I was kind of waiting for your
call there.
JIM: Yeah. I'm sorry, I got tied up setting
up that car.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM : I've got a car out there that ' s ready .
STEVE: Oh, it's already out there and ready?
JIM: Well, no, it's, it's not at the water
tower, but it's, it's just about, you know, about an
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STEVE: About an eighth of a mile?
JIM: Um-hum. Have you got the kids ready?
STEVE: We're a little -- Jim, man, I mean,
you know, we thought we were getting it worked out
again, but tell me if it's true or false, we just heard
on the radio that they're planning on hitting us at, at
eight o'clock, which is in three minutes.
JIM: Oh, not true. You stay with me.
We'll, we'll talk. Nothing'll happen. I'm serious.
STEVE: I mean, I believed you from --
JIM: Absolutely.
STEVE: -- the beginning.
JIM: Oh, that's baloney. I'm telling you, I
don't know where those people -- I think they just sit
there and make up stuff. They make up stuff.
STEVE: I know it. Well, even about David.
There was this -- Remember back in '87 this crazy
what's his name dug up a body. Roden?
JIM: Roden, yeah.
STEVE: They said we did that.
JIM: Oh.
STEVE: I mean, it's incredible. I mean, I
mean, the news is just ripping us apart with things
that aren't even remotely close.
JIM: Well, I'll tell you what. When we --
After we resolve this thing, you're going to have a
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chance to clear all that up. And I --
STEVE; Well, I hope so.
JIM; I hope you do because it really makes
me angry the way they try to slander you and
everything. And it's %nrong, but, you know --
STEVE: Well, you know, a lot of these people
they've having, you know, they're, they're
trying to think and decide what they want to do. You
know, there's a lot of them here that are that way
and --
JIM: Yeah.
STEVE; And I heard what he had to say and
he's said it before. And, you know, a lot of them
are they're so puzzled and confused and --
JIM: Yeah. Well, I understand that. I
really -- And I sympathize.
STEVE: And they're saying that he's up and
walking around. That's baloney. Every time you --
He's never moved.
JIM: No, I know he's never moved.
STEVE: You can even tell by his voice. I
mean, I don't get -- I don't even know where they got
that from.
JIM: Steve, let me ask you something
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STEVE: Yeah.
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JIM: -- straight up, okay?
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: I'm worried about David. I'm concerned
about him. I, I feel like his wound is going to get
infected. I've talked to him directly about this.
STEVE: Right.
JIM: I feel like he might die. If that
happens, what, what are you going to do?
STEVE: Well, what I'm going to do --
JIM: Are you going to, are you going to let
me --
STEVE: Well, I'm going to keep on
communicating with you. That's why I wanted to, you
I know, right from the beginning, right with the
children, right on through to see what these people
want to -- I want to try to help everyone make up their
mind.
JIM: Yeah, but I want you to walk out of
there with everybody.
STEVE: Well, I'd sure like to.
JIM: I mean, that's what we want to do. And
I, I want to save David and you want to save David.
STEVE: But he really -- This is true.
JIM: I mean, let's, let's get down to the --
We've got to get down to the brass tacks. You know,
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STEVE : Right .
JIM: 1 , I don't want to dance around with
you. I mean, I am not -- I'm just a policeman and I
don't want to see nobody hurt.
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: And I told -- I asked David straight
out what are you going to do, Dave? I mean, Jesus
didn't commit suicide.
STEVE: Well, he doesn't want to do that.
JIM: Yeah, but I'm afraid he's letting that
wound draw him weaker and weaker. He's going to get an
infection. He's going to get where we can't bring him
back. He's going to get where we can't --
STEVE: I mean, after all the slander in the
world and everything he's gone through, I mean --
JIM; The guy's gone through so --
STEVE; All he's wanted to do is speak and
open up and love --to show people what, what God's
going to do, bizarre as it seems in town.
JIM; He's got a chance to make a difference.
He's got a chance to make a difference now and, and you
have a chance.
STEVE: Let me ask him, do you want to talk
to Jim? Pardon? (Unidentified male voice in
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JIM: Hey, I wish we could, I wish we could
fool all those news reporters and just -- with their
reports on the attacks and you all could just all get
in a group and walk out. And, you know, I really wish
we could just get this thing resolved peacefully.
STEVE: Well, that's what he -- You know,
that's what they want to do, but they're, they're -t-
Actually, the truth is they're terrified.
JIM: They're terrified?
STEVE: Well, yeah.
I JIM: Yeah.
STEVE: I mean, you know, a person doesn't
want to say that, but, you know, they are.
JIM; Yeah. I understand.
STEVE: They're afraid to move. They've seen
all the movement outside, you know, the vehicles. Not
the three, we heard on the radio that another four
OT five are coming from wherever --
JIM; Well, that -- You know, all that
perimeter stuff, Steve, it really -- I, i appreciate
your concern, but I'm telling you it's nothing. This
thing is inside. I mean, it's inside you and, and, and
David. If you want to -- If you guys wanted to get
together and walk out, it's over.
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JIM; Well, I know. But, see --
STEVE: You're just keeping on saying well --
And they're saying they're afraid to make any move
because of what, you know, everybody's listening to the
radios and all that.
JIM: Yeah, that's a bunch of baloney,
though. The radios don't control us.
STEVE; I know they don't, but, you know,
there are -- and there are many things that we have
hfisrd them saying that ended up being so, you know.
JIM: Yeah. That, that's all baloney. And,
look, I'm looking at my watch and it's two minutes
after eight . Is anybody assaulting you?
STEVE : No .
JIM; It'S not true. It's baloney. I'm just
trying to put a straight, you know, be as straight as I
possibly can.
STEVE; Yeah.
JIM; You know, you guys are knowledgeable
theologians and stuff and it's hard for me to talk on
that level. I mean, I don't understand all those
things. I mean, I appreciate them, I'm a Christian,
but you know what I'm saying.
STEVE; Yeah. You know, I would care about
you whether you were or not, 'cause, you know.
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everybody follows the dictates of their conscience and,
you know, they try to do it the best they can with what
they see, where they're at in this life and I don't --
You know, I've never condemned or judged a person for
that. I~ mean, one thing I have learned from the Bible,
it says judge not that he be not judged. So I doni't
3cnow what makes auiother person tick, you know. It's
not been given to me to look at another and then say
they're right or wrong or whatever.
JIM: Isn't, isn't, isn't there teachings
also that sometimes, you know, you make peace or throw
down the sword or, you know, you, you love? And that's
what you guys are trying to do.
STEVE; Well, that -- You know, like, you
know, that's what -- That hasn't even come up, you
know. We've been talking about a lot of issues, we
really have been, and --
JIM: Okay. All right, just a minute. I'm
sorry, Steve, wait a minute. He's hollering at me.
Okay. Hey, they're ready to send the car up. Would
you just tell -- ask David to pick what kids he wants
and maybe start getting them ready?
STEVE: Okay. Just a minute. (Unidentified
voices in background not discernible.)
[gap]
STEVE: It's very confusing to know even what
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JIM: Yeah. Well, look --
STEVE: The mothers, you know, they're
standing there scared even -- You know, he, he's been
saying well, do you mind sending your two now and, you
know, some of them are, are talking about they don't
know if they should go along now or what, you know.
JIM: Why don't they all come in a group?
I'll guarantee --
STEVE: Well, see, some of them want to, but
there's some that don't. And they're trying -- You
know what I mean? They're, they're confused.
JIM: Okay, I understand. And let's -- Maybe
we -- I don't want to move too fast.
STEVE: You know what I mean? It just
happened yesterday. That's why -- And, you know, there
was starting -- they were starting to calm down
because -- I'll tell you what, the greatest relief came
was when you started talking to us the way you were all
the way through and, and last night. I mean, everybody
felt good about it, they did, about you and the whole
thing. And then with Gary, well, you know, there was a
little bit there, but when you got back on the phone,
we thought we'd just continue right on with it.
JIM: You know, I've talked to all these
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STEVE: But I'll tell you the truth and, you
know, it kind of freaked us out, though, about those
lines, because, you know, they're parents, they wanted
to talk to their kids --
JIM: I appreciate that.
STEVE: -- and say come on out and, you know,
we love you and all that. Some of them are here saying
they wanted to talk to their, their folks yet. And, so
I mean, I didn't know what to say to them. That's why
finally we get on the phone and say well, can't you
leave these lines open for us.
JIM: Yeah. Well, let me ask you this,
Steve ,
STEVE; Okay.
JIM: If, if some of the people, some women
and maybe some children, wanted to come out, maybe they
could get in a group and walk out. I'll guarantee
their safe conduct. They could call you, they could
tell you we're fine.
STEVE; Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't want to
interrupt you but there is a mother here, she wants to
send her two out right now.
JIM: Okay. Let me talk to her.
STEVE: Okay, just a minute. What, what's --
And Jamie? (Talking to someone else.) Okay, there's
two that -- two of the mothers that want to send each
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JIM: All right, listen -- Okay, Steve.
STEVE: Okay, yeah.
JIM: Now, let tne ask you a question.
^ STEVE: Okay.
JIM: Does that mother want to come out?
Just ask her.
STEVE: They're sitting there talking, you
know, they're down at the other end. I'm looking at
them from a distance and I, I see them talking, but I'm
not sure what they want to do.
JIM: I don't -- I mean, okay, listen --
I STEVE: You know, a person, you know, I'm
waiting to see what they want to do. We've told them,
you know, you think through it. You know, you chose to
come here. This happened, you know, we didn't want it
to .happen, so, you know, they're all giving thoughts to
what they want to do and, and, in fact, we're kind of
waiting to see what do you want to do. That's why
David, he's so tired of it all that -- i heard what he
said and, you know, he wants them all to be so free and
to be able to say well, okay, it is or not and --
JIM: Well, listen, Steve, we want them to be
safe and we want them to be with their kids. And David
told me, now, he told me this many -- five times, okay?
STEVE: All right.
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JIM; Now, this -- there's a guy that's never
broke his word to me.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: I don't care what the newspaper said, I
don't care what the radio says, I'm just telling you
what Jim Kavanaugh says, and every time he told me
something he stood by it.
STEVE : Right .
JIM: And he told me that if there was
someone in there who wanted to come out, he would let
I them come out .
STEVE: That is -- That always will be that
way.
JIM; Okay. Now, so what I'm asking is as a
sign of good faith and --
STEVE : Just a minute .
JIM; Yeah?
STEVE: Oh, Brian and Jake. Oh, excuse me,
Brian and Jake, did they ever come?
JIM: Oh, Brian and Jake.
STEVE: I guess not. In fact, they were --
Remember, you -- we were talking to you and you never
got back to us on that, 'cause they're still -- i just
found out they were -- all this time they've been
standing there waiting.
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STEVE: I didn't know that. They're down at
the •- or near the entrance even.
JIM: Are they, are they ready now?
STEVE: Yeah.
^ JIM: Okay.
STEVE: Yeah. I didn't even know that. They
said -- They told me they've been waiting all this -- I
totally forgot about it myself.
JIM: All right. Well, we were supposed to
get those two earlier, right?
STEVE: Exactly.
JIM: Okay. Well --
STEVE: And you said --
JIM: -- why don't you do this, Steve?
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: Since the other mother was anxious to
get their two --
STEVE : Right ,
JIM: -- put their coats on them --
STEVE: All right.
JIM; Clear it with David, now. I don't --
STEVE: No, he said -- No, he --
JIM; Okay, he said --
STEVE: --he agrees, he says --
JIM: Then put those four kids together,
'cause we were supposed to get two earlier and we
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STEVE: Those, those two, they're still
talking now. They don't -- They're trying to figure
out should one send her two. They were talking about
maybe sending a little one with an older one. That's
what they're working on, and they said send these two.
And they're trying to decide. You know, it's like they
want to hug them yet and hang on --
JIM: Sure.
STEVE: -- another minute or two. So --
JIM: They're good, they're good mothers.
Come on.
STEVE: Okay, so the two are ready. Brian,
how old is he? How old is Brian? Two years old. And
Jake, he's how old? Did we give you any information on
them?
JIM: No.
STEVE: Okay, Jake is nine. He's nine years
old.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE; And they're brothers to Chrissy and
to Scott that already, you know, you have them with
you.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE; Let me -- I'm going to try to help
them get going here. I guess they're, they're still --
(Unidentified female voice in background not
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: David.
STEVE: Oh, they were wondering what
happened, how come they're not playing that message any
more on the radio.
JIM: We did play it. Do you have the radio
on?
STEVE: Yeah, they do, they do.
JIM: Okay. We need the, we need the message
played. They didn't hear it the last time we played
it, the scripture message.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: You want the
message played?
JIM; Yeah. Tell --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: Can we get the
message played?
STEVE; Jim.
JIM; Okay, you've got -- Who'd you tell?
Okay, okay, we're taking care of it.
STEVE: Okay, good.
JIM; They did play it. I don't know, maybe,
you know, you missed it.
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM; But is -- those other mothers there?
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see them. They're a little distance away from me.
They're over there. I can see them talking and
discussing it right now.
JIM: Sit the phone down and talk to them,
and if they want to send them with Brian and Jake,
because we messed up, we'll, we'll -- you know, and
David said it's okay, then we'll take those four.
STEVE: I, I think he wants to keep on going
like he was. I see him over here motioning, trying to
have these two get another two ready so that they can
go right, right almost after.
JIM: Yeah, okay. Yeah, two by two's fine.
STEVE: Okay. Let's -- Okay, let's get these
two. Where are they at now?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Brian and Jake.
STEVE: Where are they?
JIM: Can you --
STEVE: It just said on the radio that
there's only 10 children here and they already have
them, which is -- I believe you're going to find out
how many. There are a lot of them.
JIM: That's not true. We know that.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: You guys told me that wasn't the case.
Okay, can we --
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JIM: Let me check on the car. Hold on,
Steve .
STEVE : All right .
JIM: Have you got the car?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Yeah.
JIM: Okay, are the kids ready to walk out?
STEVE: Are they ready to walk out now?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Yes.
STEVE : Yes , they are .
JIM : Okay .
STEVE: Sita'B right here.
JIM: All right. Well, let me talk to her.
STEVE: Okay, here she is.
SITA: Jim?
JIM: Sita, how are you?
SITA: Jittery, but --
JIM: Listen, let me tell you something,
don't be jittery and don't be scared. All that reports
on the radio is rubbish, okay? You hear me?
SITA: Yes.
JIM: The, the -- You will see some vehicles
out there. I told David and I, and I told Steve and
they know that it's nothing, okay? Nobody's coming in
there. Now, I've got a car at the -- I'm going to send
it to the water tower right now.
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JIM: Hey, listen, let me ask you something?
SITA: Yeah?
JIM: Do you want to come out of there with
the kids?
SITA: Hey, I got, I got lots of kids to
bring .
JIM; Okay. Well, David said anybody who
wanted to come out could come out. Well, you ask him.
1 already asked him and it's up to me.
JIM: Okay.
SITA: Right now I'm concerned about the
children.
JIM: Well, why don't you bring the -- your
kids and come out?
SITA: I, I was the first one.
JIM; Okay.
SITA: See, me, I was the first one. Crystal
and Angelica.
JIM; Right. I know, yeah. I know, you,
you're doing great. You're working with us.
SITA; And, you know, I was tempted -- I love
those -- I love all those kids.
JIM: I know. They need you. These -- Let
me tell you something, Sita, these kids need you. They
need all their mothers. I wish you could look at -- I
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difficult because, you know, what you say you want to
do, you're telling me you don't want to do.
JIM: Well, no, I didn't say that. Do I have
one, one more little children in here? Is there one
more child here? No, we, we already brought him in.
We're bringing another child in? Okay. (Talking to
someone else.) I have another one of the children here
to talk to --
DAVID: Well, get on the ball with that other
stuff then.
JIM: Okay. Well, I'm going to see what I --
DAVID; Here's Steve. I've got to get some
rest, Jim.
JIM: Okay. Hey, listen. Hey, listen. Just
hang in there with me, okay?
DAVID: All right.
JIM: Just hang in there, all right? Hey,
we'll get your message out when this thing's all
resolved.
STEVE: Hello, Jim.
JIM: Hey, Steve?
STEVE ; Yes .
JIM: Let, let me call you back. I'm trying
to work on a few things.
STEVE ; Thank you .
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STEVE: Hello?
JIM: Hey, Steve?
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: This is Jim.
STEVE : Yes .
JIM: How you doing?
STEVE ; Not bad .
JIM: Is David there?
STEVE: Yes, he is. David, you want to talk
to Jim? He wants to know what you're doing now?
JIM: Well, one thing I wanted to do is I
wanted you to give me the phone number of that line
where you're having the trouble.
STEVE: He wanted us to give the phone number
of the line we're having trouble with. Actually, all
of them, 'cause none of them are operating now, except
for one, the one you're talking to me on now. It's the
only one that I can call or you — and it's only to
you.
JIM; Okay. Well, I wanted you to give me
those numbers, but I still need to talk to David, if I
could .
STEVE; Okay. The numbers -- pardon?
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line open and to you guys.
JIM: Oh, really?
STEVE: Okay, so, the first number is 863-
5663.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE: We haven't been using that one. We
didn't -- We don't have it plugged in, so I guess it
doesn't much matter, but --
JIM: Okay.
STEVE; And bring a phone the next time,
also. And some cord.
JIM: Let me see what we can do.
STEVE: Okay, 'cause this, this thing is
poor. The other number is a cellular phone, is 744-
2662.
j JIM: Um-hum.
STEVE; And then we have 7 -- or 863-5252.
JIM: Okay. All right. All right, I'm going
to give these to the technical guys and --
STEVE; And there's one other one, come to
think of it. The other one is -- the one that was cut
off by -- with Wayne was 863 — and I believe it's --
what's Wayne's number?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Five nine seven
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5 JIM: But, Steve, I, I --
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STEVE; --.because, you know, it's to do with
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JIM; I understand.
STEVE: Okay, good.
JIM: But can I talk to David?
STEVE ; Sure . Just a minute .
DAVID: Hello?
JIM: David.
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Hi. Listen, we've got a change we've
got to talk about.
DAVID: All right,
JIM: Okay? Now, listen to me before you say
anything, okay? We're having a change in the field
with these tactical commanders, okay?
DAVID; Uh-huh.
JIM: You know, because all the agents were
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We don't want nobody else hurt. We've got the FBI in
here supporting us and, you know, the state police and
the National Guard. And you know that, we talked about
that yesterday.
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: Okay. Now, the tactical commanders are
going to move the perimeter up.
DAVID: No, you keep them back.
JIM: Well, let me, let me, let me tell you
what -- the reasons and --
DAVID: I know what the reasons are, Jim.
JIM: No, David, look --
DAVID: Okay, you want to kill us, come and
kill us, Jim.
JIM: No. Hey, David, no, we're -- this is
not it. Now, let me tell you why.
DAVID: Jim, let's stop playing around.
JIM: No, let me tell you what we did. Let
me finish. Come on, give me a chance, okay?
DAVID; They told -- Gary told us all last
night they weren't aroimd here. All the night vision
we saw them, we saw them down there digging in. Out by
the bam, out in the back, there are snipers. They've
got scopes. I mean, come on.
JIM; Hey, they're not going to do anything.
DAVID; Oh, Jim.
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JIM: David, they're not. I can walk you out
of there if you want out. And I can -- nobody's going
to do nothing to you.
DAVID: Hey.
JIM: But let me tell you what's going to
happen, okay? We're going to move some of these big
vehicles up to the tactical position, okay? Defensive
only, okay?
DAVID: No.
JIM: One thing that's worrying the
commanders were all those people that were in the bush
and all those people moving arovmd there. They've got
these vehicles that'll protect their men. We made them
take the gun barrels off them. There's no gun barrels
on them, okay? You know, they have a big gun on them.
You guys have a lot of heavy weapons in there and some
of the, you know, the troops want to be protected.
DAVID: So stay back then.
JIM: Well, but they, you know, they've got a
duty that --
DAVID; Look, let's Stay back, Jim. Let's
get my kids out and we'll start talking again, all
right?
JIM; David, I'm afraid they're probably
going to be moving before I can stop them.
DAVID; Well --
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JIM: I don't want you to -- I want you to
know they're not coming -- it's strictly they're taking
a position —
DAVID: Look, we already discussed -- you
already told me they were going to do nothing until you
gave them the okay. So, like I say --
JIM; Well, they're not coming. When I say
that, I mean they're not coming in there.
DAVID: But they're moving up closer. They
were coming in close last night. I had to do
everything I could to keep the guys off of them.
JIM: Yeah. Nothing is happening except
they're just changing positions and perimeters. They
don't want anybody to be able to come in and bother
you. They don't want anybody to come out, that's the
truth. We don't want anybody to come out unless we
agree. And we have set up — we're just setting up a
defensive position and nothing progressive, nothing for
attack.
DAVID: Who's firing guns?
JIM; We're not firing any guns.
DAVID; Jim, like I say, I figured eventually
it was going to get to where you all was going to start
cheesing --
JIM; No, hey, we're not cheesing.
DAVID: In your conversation. You're going
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I to take another inch, another inch.
JIM: No, listen, I'm trying to tell you this
in advance as a sign of good faith. I didn't want you
to think I was tricking you. I'm telling you this is
going to happen.
DAVID: Yeah.
JIM: I'm being straight up. You're not
going to see the vehicles drive up and say Jim lied.
I'm telling you they f re coming because they feel
they've got change their, you know, perimeter. And --
DAVID: They're going to come on our
property, in other words?
JIM; Well, I don't -- I'm not sure that's
going to happen.
DAVID; Well, get the details and call me
back.
JIM; Well, look, I had them take off the gxin
barrels to show you there's no --
DAVID: Come on, Jim.
JIM: Huh?
DAVID; I said come on, Jim. The perimeter
is our property line, okay? We want these guys off our
property line.
JIM: Okay. Well, I'm, you know, I'm going
to see what I can do. I can't --
DAVID: If they want to fight, we'll fight.
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JIM: I can't make that promise, David.
DAVID: Okay, they, they want to kill us,
they've got the big guns now.
JIM: Nobody wants to kill you.
DAVID; Hey --
JIM: Nobody wants to kill you.
DAVID; Jim --
JIM: Trust — hey, I'm not going to let
them -- nobody's going to kill you. All we're doing is
chcuiging a position. It's going to look like a lot of
activity. They're not coming in there. Nobody's
coming in there.
DAVID: Then tell them to stay off our
property .
JIM: Okay. Well, just bear with me.
DAVID: Or there are going to be some tears.
JIM: No, let's not have any trouble. Come
on, you can work with me.
DAVID: Yeah, come on, you can work with me,
Jim.
JIM; Come on, David.
DAVID; We've got a deal going now with the
children getting out.
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID; Okay? Now, if that don't mean
anything to you or these hotheads, then we'll have to
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deal with that later in the judgment, won't we?
JIM: No, we want to get the kids out. We
want to get everybody out. And I don't want anybody to
get hurt .
DAVID: Like I aaid, do what I say then.
JIM; Not any of your people.
DAVID: Then do what I say, Jim. Otherwise,
come on in here and wipe us out.
JIM: No, that's not going to happen.
Nobody's coming in there to wipe you out.
DAVID: Get on the phone and call those guys
and tell them let's finish up our plan and -- they've
got plenty of time, you know, to move their tactical
stuff after the kids are out, you know. You don't needl
to be messing around right now, like a bunch of little
Boy Scouts.
JIM: Well, David --
DAVID: They think they're mature, they think
they're men. They've got logical thinking. They, they
think they love the innocent. All right.
JIM; Well, David, let me ask you, how many
kida - you won't tell me and 1, i don't know how many
more --
DAVID; You're going to find out.
JIM: Well, I know, but why is that a secret?
We're just trying to help get them
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know, I can't give them a time frame. I mean, what
they're saying is we've got to protect the public from
stray rifle fire, if that would occur, and --
DAVID: The, the public's not even out here,
all right?
JIM: Well, they're, they're out on that
highway .
DAVID: We're way out here.
JIM: Yeah, but there, there's a lot of
people on those highways.
DAVID: Okay.
JIM: Reporters. I'm telling you --
DAVID: So what is your time limit that
you're going to come in here and bust --
JIM: We're not coming in. We are not coming
in. We are not coming in.
DAVID: Well, if you keep getting closer,
we're going to retaliate. And then you're going to
have to come in, and that's just the way it is, Jim.
I'm sorry.
JIM: Well, David --
DAVID: You're going to keep moving your
erratic finger closer and closer to our rear ends, and
then finally we're going to turn arovmd and we're going
to slug you.
JIM: Yeah.
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JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: You know, I mean, this is a great
nation, but, like I said, it's not bigger than my God.
^JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: Now, the whole meanings of what I'm
trying to tell you in the seals is I'm the little guy
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JIM: Um-hum.
DAVID: Okay, you tried to push me.
JIM: I'm not pushing you.
DAVID: No, let me, let me say your -- I just
saw Robert Gonzalez on the TV, you know. They tried to
push me. And you did. But, remember, I tried to tell
you about God who judges all nations.
JIM; Um-hum.
DAVID: I'm the little guy, you're the big
guy.
JIM: No, I'm not the big guy.
DAVID: You know, the Goliath, I'm the David.
Remember that. Remember, David took five smooth
stones. And we're in the fifth seal now, okay?
JIM: Yeah.
DAVID: And Goliath does get his head sunken
in with a rock. Think about that.
JIM: Well, listen, David, I, I don't want
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you to put more into this than is happening.
DAVID: Hey --
JIM: It'S not.
DAVID: -- the same, the same, all right?
JIM: Okay.
DAVID: You tell these guys to back off.
We're the ones that are edgy. Really we're not, but,
like I say, if they want to keep playing around, then
they'll find out what we've got, okay?
JIM: Yeah. Listen, okay. I just want you
to relax. Call me if you see them moving.
DAVID: You call them and then you call me,
okay? Do what you can, Jim.
STEVE: Okay. Let me talk to Steve just a
minute .
DAVID: Okay, here.
JIM; I want to e^qplain it to him. Steve,
hello?
STEVE ; Hello?
JIM : Steve?
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM; Hey, this is Jim.
STEVE: Okay, Jim.
JIM: Listen, now, I've told David and I'm --
I want to tell you, too.
STEVE; All right.
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JIM; We're going to have a change in the
perimeter. This is -- it's defensive, okay? Now,
you're going to see these vehicles moving and you'll
see where they're set up, okay? Just bear with me now.
-STEVE: I'm listening.
JIM: And once they go to their position arid
stop, they're not coming any closer?
STEVE: Pardon? I missed the last part.
JIM: I, I said they're not coming any
closer. Wherever you see them go and stop, okay?
STEVE : They' re going to be on the perimeter
of the property?
JIM: They're going to -- yeah, they're going
to set up a perimeter out there, okay? And, now, I
told David, these are like big vehicles, three vehicles
that will protect an agent from getting shot, okay?
STEVE; And what would an agent be doing near
here anyway?
JIM; Well, we're, we're trying to get around
so nobody goes in. You know all the trouble we had
last night with those people in the bushes, you know.
STEVE; No, I can't. (Talking to someone
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JIM: Steve?
STEVE ; Yes .
JIM: You know all that stuff we had, people
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in the bushes and you guys -- your men saw people and
our men saw people. And, you know, that's one thing we
can put an end to. When these things, these vehicles
move in, it protects us and it protects you. And they
don't have guns on them.
STEVE: Jim, I mean, what you're saying, I
mean, it would sound good to a kindergartner, you know
that?
JIM: No. Steve, trust me. We had the gunis
taken off them. They're just so the agents don't get
shot, that's all. You guys got some heavy stuff in
there .
STEVE : We do?
JIM; Yeah. I mean, you know, assault rifles
and, I mean, you know, that'd go right through a car.
I mean, so --
STEVE: Just a moment. (Unidentified voices
in background not discernible.) Jim, what part of the
property?
JIM; Well, I'm going to -- I have to check
on that to find out, okay? What I want you to do is
pass the word, tell everybody they're coming. When
they stop, that's where they'll stay, okay? They're
not going to move around. And then when you see them,
you call me. But they're not coming in.
STEVE; I don't like this, David. I don't
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JIM: It' 8, it's only three vehicles.
STEVE: Well, what is the -- there, there is
not a good reason, from our perspective, why you're
doing eucTi a thing at this point of time.
JIM: Well, it's for your safety --
STEVE: No, it's not. It's not at all. I
see -- I don't see that.
JIM: Well, there's already been too much
bloodshed, Steve, and --
STEVE: And you want to cause more.
JIM: No.
STEVE: Is that the idea?
JIM: No.
STEVE: Well, then why are you bringing such
things?
JIM; No, no, we don't --
STEVE: You see what we're doing? We're
moving on, aren't we? We keep on moving out, and now
you want to bring something so close . And what , what
kind of vehicles are you talking about?
JIM: Well, we've got -- the reason we're
doing it is we've got new personnel, we're changing
shifts. We've got other agents - -
STEVE; You don't, don't -- Jim, you don't
need to tell me why you're doing it. I mean, it's
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JIM: Well, no. You remember last night When
you saw all those men moving? .
STEVE: I never did.
- JIM: Well, I know, but your gfuys did, okay?
We're putting a stop to that. We're not going to haye
anybody moving like these -- whoever was out there,
snipers, whatever. We're not going to have that.
STEVE: I ended up believing you, remember?
You -- I took a little time each time and then we
worked it out even then.
JIM: Right. Remember today when you told me
those men were at the fence? We're not going to have
that --
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO & FIREARMS
TAPE #9
3/1/93
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STEVE: Where did they get the command to do
that, the order to do that?
JIM: Well, I don't know. You know, so --
there are so many officers.
STEVE: I thought all of you were together on
this?
JIM: Yeah, we are. But there's a lot of
people here and, you know, they moved up closer than
they should have, so we pulled them back. But these --
STEVE: Okay, why don't you, why don't you --
this? We're working along with you on this.
JIM; Well, I know, but I don't -- we don't
want people around there on foot. We don't --
STEVE: The same goes, we don't want you
there. Do you want us to set some people up on the
edge so your people or ours don't go any -- it's the
same thing.
JIM: Yeah. Well, you --
STEVE; Do you understand, Jim?
JIM: Steve, I do. But, look, there's an
advantage here for you, okay? That is --
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PARTY: What's the
advantage for us to have three of the heavy vehicles
sitting right on the edge of the property? He's trying
to say it's to our advantage, because that way we won't
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have people that we see moving around and they won't
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JIM:
Hey, Steve,
STEVE
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STEVE:
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could see a chopper.
We
could see what you pulled in the front. I don't care
where it is, when it's that close -- What kind of
vehicles are you talking about?
JIM; Well, they're --
STEVE: Some kind of armored vehicles?
JIM: Yeah. It's what they call an APC.
STEVE; APC, total armored vehicle.
JIM; You can't shoot a bullet through it.
STEVE; I Jcnow you can't.
JIM; Yeah. That's, that's, that's why we
want to put it there.
STEVE: I'm sure, so that you can shoot at ua
and - -
JIM; No.
STEVE: — SO forth.
JIM; There's no guns on them. We took the
gxuis off. You can look at them. There's no --
STEVE; How many guys are going to be in each
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have their mothers. And I want you, and I want you to
do is talk to David. Well, we've got to get these two
guys out right now, these two kids, because the car's
waiting.
' SITA: Okay.
JIM: But I want you to think about it and I
want you to talk to Steve and David about some of the
mothers coming, and also, you know, some of the kids
and -- I don't want to rush
SITA : I want all the kids out.
I JIM: I, I'm just concerned that David's
wound and infections and -- I'm just worried about him,
okay? And I think he wants to keep going a little
longer than I do because I'm worried about his
condition. I can get you out of there.
SITA: No.
JIM; All right. I'll tell you what, you go
ahead and take those kids now.
SITA; Okay.
JIM: Okay, Sita.
SITA: Okay, here's Steve.
JIM: All right.
STEVE: Okay, Jim.
JIM: All right. She, she's doing a good
job.
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tell. She needs to be with her kids, though.
STEVE; She Jcnows. She's just concerned
about some of these others, too. She wants to
encourage them, that's why, you know, she's talking to
some of these other --
JIM: Well, I feel like, I feel like Sita
trusts me, though.
STEVE: Well, she does.
JIM: And --
SITA: You know, she has said that right
along. She definitely likes you.
JIM: Yeah. Well, she's been real good. I
don't know how we would have done it without her or
you. I mean, you guys have been great. It's just hard
to work out these things.
STEVE; You know, we've never been in
anything like this.
JIM; But, listen, we have gotten -- This
is -- the way you're going and the way we're working
together, we're going to, we're going to resolve it.
STEVE; Well, you know, we're trying to
keeping on plugging on. You know, it gets so hard
because people are getting emotional in here and
they're, they're scared, you know. A lot of them are
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terrified.
JIM: Yeah. Well, I can understand that.
And I think you, you know, you may come to a point when
you all get together with David and you say David, you
know, we want to go out and we want to go out as a
group. We are a group. We are --
STEVE: Some of them here, that's what
they're talking about wanting to do.
JIM: Yeah. I mean, we're one people, we
want to stay together and we want to all come out, you
know. You'll be saving his life, man, I'm telling you
you'll be saving his life. I mean, I, I know you love
him more than anything, between you and me. Between
you and me, you love the guy. Come on.
STEVE: Well, you know, I, I like everybody,
I do. You know, I --
JIM: Yeah, but you love that guy.
STEVE: Well, I appreciate him. I have a
great, you know, I do, I do love the guy a lot.
JIM: I mean, you love that guy. Come on.
It's not just like a, a friend. I mean, you've got a
deep love for this guy.
STEVE: Oh, you know, I have, though, that
for a lot of people, I really do. You know, I mean,
he, he's shown me a lot and shared a lot and, you know,
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it's an up and down thing for sure . But - -
JIM; Well --
STEVE: Yeah, let's keep on working on this.
I mean, there's a greater satisfaction to accomplishing
something —
JIM: Steve --
STEVE: Yeah?
JIM: -- I want to give you something to, to
think about.
STEVE: All right.
JIM: Okay? I don't know if I can do this,
but what I'm going to do is I'm going to go back there
j and talk to some commanders.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM; These guys are in here, man, they've
got scrambled eggs on their hats and generals' stars,
you know.
STEVE : Right .
JIM; And I want to tell them about our
conversations ,
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: And I'm going to see if, just a
possibility now --
STEVE : Okay .
JIM: Okay, the possibility now, we
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understand?
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: 'Cause I don't want you to get mad if,
if I can't work it out. That if I was able to get I
mean a major, major broadcast of your word out --
STEVE : Um-hum .
JIM: I'm talking about -- I'm not talking
about the radio station in Dallas. I'm talking about
some major thing.
STEVE : Okay .
JIM: Would you all come out? I mean, would
you all --
STEVE: Can I, can I put it to David, because
what he's been talking about?
JIM: Okay. I mean --
STEVE: I mean, even tonight -- What is it,
it's Monday and what about -- Is it a possibility maybe
of Ted Koppel or something?
JIM: I mean something, something that would
be dynamic.
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: I mean, you know, I'm not -- You'd have
to let us work out the, the details, but --
STEVE: Right.
JIM: --it's just a possibility that --
Don't put a lot of things on me I can't deliver.
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STEVE; Yeah, I understand.
JIM; You know, Ted Koppel and all these news
stars, you know. You, you leave it to me to get
something that will be acceptable to you, if we can
work it out.
STEVE: uh-huh. Well --
JIM: You know, maybe something that's more,
you know, Ted Koppel, you know, I mean, who's watching
that? I mean, I need to watch -- to get it to the
people who are religious.
STEVE; Well, let me mention it to him, at
least, here.
JIM: Yes. Okay, let's see, did -- Steve?
STEVE TO KORESH; He's not promising or
anything, he doesn't know if he can even do it. If
it's possible if he could put you in touch with the,
the best news coverage possible -- I mentioned like the
Ted Koppel --he says would you as a group come out
together and --
MR. KORESH: Can't do that.
STEVE: Well, he's saying he can't do that
because he wants them to have the choice, you know,
every one of them, and he don't --He wants them to be
able to I guess move on their own without -- Some of
them, you know, they're scared and all the rest.
JIM: Yeah. Well, look, maybe you can talk
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STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: I think it would be something real
positive and, you know, real positive for everybody
concerned. And we'd get you out safely, we'd get to
treat his woxmds.
STEVE: Well, he was wondering there couldn't
be at least a line opened up back to the radio or
something.
JIM: Well, you know, we can work on that.
STEVE: Could you? While we're moving with
the kids, could you do that?
JIM: Well, I'll, I'll go check on it. I'll
try to --
STEVE: I mean, you know, Alex, you know, you
can tell the guy's not a, a guy that's given to
positiveness over religious things anyway. So that's
fine, you know, if he wants to ask his tough questions
or whatever .
JIM; Steve.
STEVE; Yeah?
JIM: The commanders are -- they're asking me
where's the kids. Have they left?
STEVE: I don't -- Just a minute, let me find
out, because she's not here any longer. Have the kids
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Have the kids
STEVE: Okay. Yeah, they --
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(small child (ren) crying in background of most of tape)
STEVE: Really, it is.
JIM: It is. It's going good and it's going
to go good.
- STEVE: It feels like being on a -- up and
down on waves here, but --
JIM: Yeah, I know.
STEVE: Should I call you back then or are
you going to call me. back or --
JIM: Tell you what I want to do is just
get --
STEVE : Pardon?
JIM: I want to just get the kids -- I want
to just tell you we got them safe.
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PARTY; He's going to
work on that. He said he's going to work on getting a
line for you there, you know, with the radio station or
whatever .
JIM: Steve?
STEVE: You 3cnow there is one thing. A
couple of these guys that haven't made up their mind,
they're, they're saying there are guys in camouflage
that they, that they see them right now. They've got
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JIM : Okay .
STEVE: -- those kind of vehicles being
there?
- JIM: Yeah.
STEVE: Well, that -- Okay, you, you said it,
we were going along and, you know, the, the -- we're
moving with the kids. But who are they? I mean, what
are they doing there? You know, I really thought you
had control over these vehicles.
JIM: You ]cnow, there's a lot of perimeter
movement, I understand that.
STEVE: I mean that's the kind of thing that
makes some of these people nervous. They don't want to
be, you know, they're wondering what's going on and
they're afraid to move. A lot of them are sitting here
kind of like almost frozen.
JIM: Yeah, I know, but nobody's coming in.
You have my word. I know there's perimeter --
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: -- people, Steve. I, I know there is.
STEVE: What are they doing on the property
and all that?
JIM; Yeah, I'm not making a secret of that.
But I guess we’ve got to, you know, we've got to kind
of, like I said earlier, you know, get more toward the
brass tacks, and that is --
STEVE: Well, that's what we want to do, but,
you Jcnow, I mean, you did tell us, you know, that they
wouldn't be on the property. And you mentioned where
the others would be and, and you told the truth.
JIM: Yeah.
STEVE: So I, I'm just wondering why those,
those guys are where they're at there.
JIM: Yeah, I'm going to have to get back
with those commanders.
STEVE : Can you?
JIM: Yeah, I will. I'm going to have to go
back --
STEVE: I, I really believe it'll make it
easier if you don't -- if there's no one like that.
There's going to be people here that are going to be
feeling much more safe and, and -- I mean, 'cause, you
know, it's night, they don't know what's going on, they
don't know where these people might end up being.
They're, they're scared.
JIM : I know . Look , here ' s what - -
STEVE: Okay.
JIM; Here's what we're going to have to do.
STEVE; All right.
JIM: As soon as we get these kids hooked up,
I'm going to go back and talk to these commanders --
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STEVE; All right. Okay.
JIM; -- about that perimeter motion, okay?
STEVE ; Right .
JIM: And, and some of these issues we've
discussed.
STEVE: Right, okay.
JIM: I've got to round them up. There's a
bunch of them in here.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: And --
STEVE: And call me back then?
JIM: No, because I want to hook these kids
up, okay? And, and, and, and David said that he wanted
to keep the kids coming out.
STEVE : Right .
JIM: And you've got these other two, Chrissy
and -- You've got Brian and Jake are coming out and
you've got Chrissy and Scott.
STEVE : Yeah .
JIM: So what, what I want you to do, I've
got Henry here, okay?
STEVE; Okay.
JIM: He's been with me all through this.
STEVE: All right.
JIM: Okay? Helping me, setting up the car,
doing everything, okay?
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6 JIM: Okay, he's not going to make any
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STEVE: Okay.
JIM; You know
STEVE : I tell you, I'm so weak I'm standing
here and --
JIM: Just hang with me one second, Steve.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: Listen --
STEVE: I'm tired.
JIM: -- what I want you -- After, after you
talk to Henry a while, and he'll give you a break, but,
you 3cnow, David can convince everyone to come out if he
has a mind to.
STEVE: Well, you know, that's what he's been
saying to them. He again said to these people, he said
look, you know, he's already told them. And like right
now he's laying back because he's, he is, you know, I'm
telling you he can hardly talk.
JIM: Yeah.
STEVE; He mustered up what he could to talk
with you, but he is tired.
JIM: Well, you, you've got to work with him,
you've got to --
STEVE: Well, that's what I need to do now.
That's what I wanted to do.
JIM: Okay. Let me just tell you we've got
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STEVE : Okay .
JIM: -- and then you can work out with Henry
just a time to, you know, to keep bringing people out
and, you -know, the kids anyway. Trust me, Steve, Hanry
won't let you down now. I wouldn't give you anybody
that you couldn't trust.
STEVE: Right.
JIM: I mean, the guy's first-rate, okay?
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: Everything he says right down the line,
okay? Okay, the cars are there.
STEVE : Okay .
JIM: The commanders are telling me the cars
are there. You okay?
STEVE: Yeah. Oh, I'm getting tired. There *
there, you know, there's people all over the place herei
and --
JIM: You know -- Okay, the kids are out?
You know, you guys talk about it. Nobody's coming in
there .
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: You've got my word, it's solid, it's
1,000 percent absolute, okay?
STEVE; Okay.
JIM: I know, I know that everybody's
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skittish, but, you know, we've just got to work on the
kids and we've got to let -- What are they saying on
the radio, 10 kids?
STEVE: Yeah. Wait. (Indiscernible voice in
background) David, he believes that you're fixing to
hit us tonight, he says.
JIM: No, we are not fixing to hit you. That
is not true.
STEVE: I mean, here's, here's this crazy
radio again, you know. I mean, where, where are they
getting that information?
JIM: You know, that is baloney. It's
rubbish.
STEVE: The news media was told to get out 6f
the way and to back way off, much farther back than
what they are even now. Why is that?
JIM; Nobody's coming in there. A thousand
percent absolute guarantee. I'm promising you, it's
true, okay? Do we got those kids? Okay. Steve?
STEVE; Yeah.
JIM: Let me check here. Hold on a second.
STEVE: These guys are being told to move
back a half-mile more even for safety. Safety of what?
JIM; Okay. I'm sorry, for what?
STEVE: We're listening -- Right now on the
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half-mile more for their own safety. What are they
talking about?
JIM: Yeah. Oh, well, what they're doing is
they don't want them in any of the -- They've been
crawling- down our backs, all those reporters. Crawling
down our backs.
STEVE: Well, their comments are, you know,
for safety, that they don't get hurt and so forth, I
mean, wow.
JIM: Oh, yeah, but that's not -- That's
normal. We don't want them there. I mean, they've
raced in real fast early and, you know, now we're just
trying to get them back and clear the road. It's
nothing, trust me. And it means nothing. I'd like
to -- Tell you what, I'd like to move them back to
Arkansas, they're such a pain in the neck.
STEVE : I suppose .
JIM: And the policemen are just glad, you
know, you go out and the lieutenant says get rid of all
the reporters. What do yon think the policeman does?
Tries to kick their butt back a mile, so don't -- it's
no big thing. Okay, look --
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM: -- I've got -- Hold on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE SPEAKER: We've got the
kids. They're on their way back. We have another car
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in to pick up two more.
JIM: Okay, we've got the kids.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: They're safe.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: They're on the way back here.
STEVE: Can you -- Can I get off the phone
and then have them call again? And we ' re working on
the other two.
JIM : All right .
STEVE: I'm going to go talk -- try to talk
to these mothers.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE: And try to get them going then right
away. 'Cause right now they're trying to decide. If t
could encourage them somehow.
Hello, Jim?
JIM: Hold on, hold on a minute.
STEVE: Okay.
JIM: Hold on. They're, they're going to
tell me something from the car.
STEVE; All right.
[gap]
JIM: Okay, I'm sorry. Okay, I'll tell you
what , let ' s - -
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JIM; -- can we take, take a break?
STEVE: Oh, thanks.
JIM: Can you --
STEVE: I'm going to actually kind of lay
down here --
JIM: Okay.
STEVE; — in just a minute.
JIM; Take a break. Can you call me here?
STEVE: Yeah. Well, so far, I haven't been
able to. I tried to call you about 10 minutes ago and
I'm still not able to get out.
JIM: Okay.
STEVE: What do you think? Is it -> Do you
think --
JIM; All right, hold on, let me check on it.
STEVE: All right.
JIM; Okay.
STEVE; When, when should I call you?
JIM: Have you got that set up? (Talking to
someone else.) Okay, listen, Steve --
STEVE: Yeah.
JIM; -- you pick up the phone --
STEVE: Right.
JIM; -- and I'm going to have the technician
set it to ring my number.
STEVE; Okay. You mean like right now, just
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JIM: You want to try it right now?
STEVE: If you want.
JIM: Yeah.
- STEVE: I mean, would that be the thing or --
JIM; Yeah. Let's hang up, hang up.
STEVE; Okay.
JIM; Just leave it hang up for 15 seconds.
STEVE: All right.
JIM; And then pick it up and see if you get
STEVE; Okay, I'll try.
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STEVE; Hello?
HENRY: Steve?
STEVE: Yeah.
HENRY; This is Henry.
STEVE; Henry?
HENRY; Yeah.
STEVE: Oh, okay. Henry, it's not working.
HENRY: Did you dial?
STEVE: Yeah, I did.
HENRY: Don't dial. Just pick it up and --
STEVE; Oh, I see.
HENRY; — just hold it.
STEVE; Just -- Okay.
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I'll call you back.
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just before we get to the kids, we have the APC's that
are going to be moving in.
STEVE: The, the which?
HENRY: The carriers that are moving into the
general perimeter of the area. Remember, we talked
about that earlier?
STEVE: Aren't there already three here or
something?
HENRY; Well, those, those are the ones that
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HENRY:
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STEVE:
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The, the cannon and the muzzles were
removed.
so everything should be fine.
STEVE:
Okay. (Unidentified voice in
background not discernible.)
HENRY;
Okay, and we have the kids --
STEVE;
It's not Jim. Henry, what happened
to Jim then?
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the details. What we'd like to try to do is we'd like
to try to continue bringing kids out and any other
people that are ready to come out .
STEVE TO UNIDENTIFIED PARTY; Okay. So
they'd like to continue bringing the kids out and any
others that want to come out. He's talking to the
brass, I don't know about what. (Unidentified voice in
backgrovind not discernible.)
STEVE: He, wants Jim to give him a call as
soon as the van is here, I guess.
HENRY: Okay. Is Jake -- I have Jake here,
j or Jacob.
STEVE; Okay.
HENRY: Who would Jacob be talking to?
STEVE: Who would Jake be talking to? He has
Jake there, of course, and little Brian. (Unidentified
female voice in background not discernible.)
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Jake?
HENRY; This is Henry. Who is this?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Can I have
Jake, please?
HENRY; Yes, you certainly may. Hold on just
a second.
JAKE : Hi .
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you. I love you. Tell Brian, okay? Tell Brian I love
him, okay? I've got to go. Put the other guy back on
the phone. I love you. Tell me, tell me you love me.
JAKE : Bye .
- UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Bye.
HENRY: Hello?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Put the guy
back on the phone.
HENRY: Huh?
I UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Okay.
HENRY: Hello?
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HENRY: Hello?
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HENRY: Hello?
STEVE: Henry? |
HENRY: Yes. |
STEVE; So is Jim getting back on thfe phone
then or --
HENRY: Well, not just now. He's, you know,
he's talking to, to some of our --
STEVE: Well, can you have him call back as
soon as he's ready then, because the next two -j-
HENRY: We're ready now. If you're ready to,
to send two other people now. I'll, i'll work tiose
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want to talk to Jim about the next two that you have
or -- Yeah, he says him and Jim's got the deal going
and he wants to keep on talking with Jim, I guess.
HENRY: Well, I'd like to -- Can I talk to
him for just a second?
STEVE: Okay. He wants to talk to you.
MR. KORESH: Hello?
HENRY: How are you doing?
MR. KORESH: Kind of weak. How are you boys
doing.
HENRY: How do you feel now?
MR. KORESH: How do I feel now?
HENRY: Dm-hum.
MR. KORESH: Just a little pain.
HENRY; Okay. What we'd like to do, David,
is we'd like to continue working as we were before.
We'd like to continue bringing out additional children,
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before. And we'd like to work, if possible, you know,
everybody has a concern here about you. We feel that,
you know, that you're not really taking care of
yourself. We don't want anything to happen to you.
We'd like for you to consider coming out yourself.
We want everybody to come out, we want
everybody to come out of this alive. We don't want you
to give up, and we feel that you are. That's a great
concern to, to all of us.
MR. KORESH: Well, like I was telling Jim,
you know, I told Jim to, to look into that Bible. I
told him to look into Revelation 4 and 5. I told him
to look into those seals. Now, if you look at the, the
fifth seal, if you look at the sixth seal, if you look
into Isaiah 13, if you look in Joel 2, if you look into
the back of Nahum, what's fixing to happen has already
been foretold. I teach seven seals.
Now, whatever that means, you know, I'd like
to talk with you guys in full. I'd like you to grab a
Bible, sit down and follow me word by word, see what
the ancients have foresaw. And that way we'd have a
better understanding. But I realize that, you know,
most of you are not ready for that. You've got your
own way of doing things.
HENRY ; Well , one of the concerns that we
have, you know, that I feel that you may have is you
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mentioned earlier that you felt that people were
® cult leader, okay? If you give up, that
may in fact be the impression that everybody has,
whereas if you continue to fight in terms of trying to
save your life and continue to lead your people, that's
not the impression that will be created.
MR. KORESH: Look --
HENRY; You've been a family person, okay?
And your family --
MR. KORESH: Oh, I'm definitely a family
person .
I HENRY: And your family needs you. And
everybody wants to see you come out of this alive.
MR. KORESH: Look, Henry
HENRY : Everybody needs you. These people
need you, the kids need you.
MR. KORESH: You're not going to listen to
me , are you?
HENRY: I will listen to you.
MR. KORESH: Okay, you're listening no^?
HENRY: Yes, I am.
MR. KORESH: Okay. The event that you're now
fixing to witness is you're fixing to see a government,
a government that's been blessed -- See, there was an
ancient empire called Babylon.
HENRY; Um-hum.
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MR. KORESH: Land of the Chaldeans. And
before Babylon ruled the then-knovm world, God had a
people that he brought out of Egypt and God had given
them laws and statutes and God had stated unto Israel,
which was' a cult because they had one leader, Moses,
and one right-hand man, Aaron, and God says and
promised that if they will keep his laws he'll make
them the head of all nations. If they break his laws,
he'll scatter them amongst the nations and the nations
of the heathens will rule over them.
So for many, many hundreds of years God
forebores his people. But, finally, the days came when
Israel became worse than the heathens. So God arose
prophets such as Isaiah, Hosea, Obadiah, Malachi,
Zephaniah, Habakkuk, you know, these prophets, Nahum.
And God foretold in these prophets how that they'd be
scattered amongst the nations. In the Book of Daniel,
Daniel was shown, while under the Chaldean captivity,
he was shown that the nations of the earth that shall
rule over God's people will be symbolized as one great
image, and the image will be head of gold, arms of
silver, belly of brass, legs of iron, feet part of iron
and part of clay.
And Daniel says to the king, Nebuchadnezzar,
the highest ruling position of the land in that day,
Daniel says thou oh. King, of this head of gold, and
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after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to
thee, and yet a third kingdom of brass. And then a
fourth kingdom, dreadful and terrible, it shall cometh
the whole world.
- HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: And then there shall be a
kingdom that shall be at the ten toes, partly strong
and partly broken. So when Rome split up under the
nomadic kingdoms, it, fell into many different kingdoms.
HENRY; Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: We know it as Europe. Now,
Daniel goes on to explain that while Europe is still in
existence, he goes on to say (indiscernible) behold a
stone, came and emote the image in the feet and they
had gold and silver amd braes and iron, was all made as
the chaff of the summer threshing floors. Well, this
stone is the subject of which the Book of Revelation
talks about. It talks about that which must be
hereafter, that God will one day in the future, in the
end of the world, shall come and sit on his throne in
heaven, and there'll be one question asked in heayen.
The question is who is worthy to open this
book? The book is in the right hand of God. And to
lose these seven seals thereof, scripture clearly
teaches Christendom, that no man in heaven nor on earth
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HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: But the lamb, the lamb is
symbolized as a lamb with seven eyes and seven horns.
You know, God creates things in seven days, doesn't he?
HENRY : Um-hum .
MR. KORESH: Okay. There's only one many who
knows what that book teaches. But for the sake of
humanity, the acid test revolving around the subjects
in this book revolve around Christ in heaven, opening
the seals, and what is witnessed is a man on a white
horse, a man on a red horse, black and pale. Dead
souls under the altar described to God because of their
blood that's been shed, and then the time when the sun
and moon and stars will be darkened, the heavens will
part as a scroll and the great man, mighty men, free
men, bonded men shall cry to the rocks and mountains to
fall on them and hide them from the face of him that
sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb* but
the great David's wrath has come.
HENRY : Um- hum .
MR. KORESH: So these subjects are mysteiries,
'cause nobody really has a real thorough opinion to
really know the real meanings of these things. But in
Chapter 10, after the student of scripture is read and
become familiar with the symbols, in Chapter 10, after
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talking about an army of 200 million that overthrow the
world, it talks about a mighty angel coming down from
heaven. And he has in his hand a little book and it's
opened and seven thunders are uttered, seven thunders.
And John was told that when there's time no longer this
mystery of God, this revelation of Jesus Christ, the
seven seals will be finished, as God has declared to
his servants the prophets.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: So in this 22nd chapter, after a
person takes the time to read these things, it's very
clear, the statement, Christ says I Jesus have sent my
angel to testify to these things in the churches. l am
the root and the offspring of David. Now, Ancient
David was a great king, wasn't he?
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: He's the one that took his
little sling stone and slew the great giant Goliath.
HENRY: Right.
MR. KORESH: Yeah, okay. So what happened
was he says behold, I come quickly. My reward is with
me, to give it to every man according as his work shall
be.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: Now, when Christ comes, the
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that no other man in heaven was worthy to receive? No
man was worthy. A book, right?
HENRY ; Um-hum .
MR. KORESH: God gave him a book, a
revelation of himself that the father claims he's the
author of this book. And when the lamb comes, he's
going to bring this book and mankind is supposed to
find out that it is the Bible, the Bible which the
prophets of God having spoken by the spirit that God
gave them, having volumed a testament in regards to
those events that must be fulfilled in the latter days.
Now, in Revelation 13, John witnesses in regards to the
seventh seal, John sees a beast.
This beast has a head like a lion, a body
like a leopard, feet of a bear. In Daniel 7, Daniel
foretold that the empires of Babylon -•> Persia, Greece
and Rome would be symbolized, Babylon as a lion, --
Persia as a bear, Greece as a leopard. And the fourth
beast, he said, would devour all the three beasts
before it and conquer the world. Now, that was Rome.
Daniel also says in the days of this kingdom they will
kill the prince of the covenant. They could change
God's times and God's laws and place abomination to
make desolate false religion. We know the only tSnie
religion is the religion of God.
HENRY; Um-hum.
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MR. KORESH: Now, Christ died during the
times of Rome and on the cross. Very clearly, it's
written in the gospel records. He said father, forgive
them for they know not what they do.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: And then he said into thy hand I
commit my spirit. And the hand of God has a book, the
word. By the word of God, God made heaven and earth.
And by hie word, there was prophets. The events that
you're now witnessing are taking place. Now, what is
taking place? Well, in the Book of Micah, it says in
that day they shall gather together and they shall say
let thine be defiled that they know not the thoughts of
the Lord, neither do they understand his counsel .
All of the prophets through the Book of
Nahum, it talks about Messiah, it talks about, well,
for instance, to make it real simple, Christ says he
has the key of David in revelation. So in the Book of
the Psalms, for instance Psalms 2, David sees a Vision
of the future, of a confrontation between man and man's
law --
HENRY ; Um-hum .
MR. KORESH: — and God and God's law.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: Now, Revelation 13 tells \js that
there's a lamb-like beast that'll rise up, having two
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horns, and it'll speak as a dragon. Now, we've got to
identify what great empire arose up after Europe that's
a great empire that's lamb-like or Christian, but yet
doesn't really tell the truth. Well, the only great
empire we've known is the United States of America.
Now, back to Psalms 2, the psalm says why do the
heathen rage? You know, the heathen don't know God.
HENRY: Dm- hum.
MR. KORESH: They don't know his word.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: And they get angry.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: It says, and the people imagine
vain things, for the leaders of the earth and the
rulers take counsel together against the Lord --
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: -- and against his anointed.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: That's Christ, you see?
HENRY : Um-hum .
MR. KORESH: Saying let us break hie bands
asunder. Now, what are the seven bands that Christ
promises to bring when he comes again? The seven
seals, right?
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: But Zachariah and the other
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prophets say that the world will not regard these
messages of mercy. They have no interest in being
instructed by anyone but themselves. Now, they say let
us break his bands asunder, let us cast his cords away
from us.- But scripture says, which is taking place
right now, it says that he that sits in the heavens --
That's the father, you see?
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: -- shall laugh, for the Lord
shall have them, the heathen, in confusion. See, the
heathen don't know what they're doing. And this time
they can't be forgiven because this time they willfully
reject the subject which so plainly has been laid in
the Book of Revelation, a subject which everyone is to
be very familiarized with for the latter days. And
yet, they're to understand by earnest study that these
things will remain a mystery until Christ comes again.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: To reveal these mysteries.
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: So the heathen and their tactics
in dealing with a person based upon rumors and based
upon their laws, they fail to understand that God also
has a law and God also has a kingdom and God also has a
key. So what takes place, it says, then shall the Lord
speak unto them in hie wrath. That's what happens
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during the sixth seal.
HENRY: Uro-hum.
MR. KORESH: The sun and moon and stars is
darkened, the heaven departs as a scroll, and the great
men of the earth cry to the rocks and mountains to hide
them from the face of the reality that they would not
know aforetime what God said will be. So they end up
fulfilling prophecy, not knowing what side they're
doing. But to the wise, when God speaks in his wrath,
they already know of the events. And it says yet have
I set my king up on my holy hill of Zion.
So irrespective of what attitude the heathen
I •’^sy take against the truth of the seven seals or the
man that is trying to teach the seven seals,
irrespective, God's kingdom, the stone, God himself is
going to intervene and he's going to hit the image in
the feet and it's all going to blow away, and God's
going to take the jurisdiction and power from all the
great men of the earth and all that the prophets have
spoken is to be fulfilled.
HENRY ; Um-hum .
MR. KORESH: Now, the psalm continues to say
I will declare the decree, the Lord has said unto tne,
thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. So we
know the anointed one is Christ, don't we? Christ is
the Son of God in Psalms 2, right?
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HENRY ; Um - hutn .
MR. KORESH: And it says the father says to
the son ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for
thine inheritance and the other most parts of the earth
for thy possession, for thou shalt dash the heathen to
pieces with a rod of iron and shall break them as a
potter's vessel. Now, that's pretty bad, isn't it?
HENRY: Um-hum.
MR. KORESH; I mean, nobody wants to be hurt,
do they?
HENRY; No, really.
MR. KORESH; So that's why in Psalms 2 the
subject is clear, the mission of the lamb, the anointed
one, is to teach the seals, okay?
HENRY; Um-hum.
MR. KORESH: Now, the reason why the prophecy
is written is because it continues to say now,
therefore, be wise, ye rulers of the world, be
instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord
with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kies the sOn,
least he be angry, and ye perish in the way when is
wrath is kindled but a little. Now, I'm not mad at you
guys , you know .
HENRY: Well, and we're not mad at you,
either.
MR. KORESH: Well, but your show of arms is
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definitely bigger than tny show of arms. So in Psalms
18, the psalm has made very plain when it says I will
love the Lord for he is my rock and my salvation, my
buckler and the horn of my salvation. It says I will
call upon him so shall 1 be delivered from my eniemies,
for they were too strong for me. And the day of my
calamity, and this is a calamity, really, they
prevented me. And then it goes on to talk about a
terrible event that takes place afterwards, because,
I you know, you all guys are too big for me.
You know, your laws are more numerous than
the Ten Commandments, you know, your weapons are
bigger, your forces are stronger.
HENRY: Urn- hum.
MR. KORESH: You know? But not really. You
see, not really. You know, Elijah in his day, the king
of Israel was having to face the Moabites and the
Hittites and they were outnumbered. But what Elijah
said was they that be with us are more than they that
be with them because unbeknown to the forces of the
heathen who were so boistering of their superior power
they did not see the invisible forces of God, the
angels of God, you know, just like in the days of
ancient Hezekiah.
HENRY : Um- hum .
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wouldn't he?
DAVID: Yeah. I can't get down there to it
BO. Yeah, that's what we'll do.
HENRY: Okay. And you know how everybody's
concerned about money. And I mean everybody is, has a
concern. Can you do me a favor, and can you make it,
you know, like in such a fashion that, that in order to
avoid their wanting to chop it up or to play part of it
or whatever --
DAVID: How much, how much does it cost their
air time?
HENRY: Well, that's the whole thing.
DAVID: Per minute?
HENRY: That'S the whole thing. You know, so
keep
DAVID: How much does it cost?
HENRY; I don't have any idea. But
there's
DAVID: Give me the price and I'll pay it.
HENRY: Oh, I don't have any idea. I have no
idea. But what I'd like to do is I would like for you
to make it as concise and as brief as you can make it
so that we can be in a situation where your word will,
will get out. Nothing will be chopped off. Your
message will go out as you want it, you know.
DAVID: Well, like I say remember I'll even
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HENRY: Well, you know, we don't need --
DAVID: We will fund it.
HENRY: --we don't need that. We -- what we
want is we want you to -- you were given your
cooperation, and that's what we promised what we would
do. So I want to live up to my part of it. Yeah, I
don't need your money. But I do need --
(Touch tone sounds . )
DAVID: Hello? Hello?
HENRY: Jesus.
DAVID: Hello?
HENRY: Hello.
DAVID: Hello. What's going on now?
HENRY: Who was that?
DAVID: Yeah. (Unidentified voice in
background not discernible . )
HENRY: What — you know, what I, what I
would like to see is I would like for you to, to
prepare yourself in such a fashion that you get your
message out and --
DAVID; Okay, wait a second.
HENRY; Now, I'm a little bit confused about
one thing. Okay? I, I know that you're, that you are
a man of your word number one. And number two, I know
that you know what you're talking about in terms of
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I theology. I'm not as -- I'm not nearly versed as you
are, okay? But one of the concerns that I have is I am
taking you to your word and that is that you're going
to come out and that everybody is going to come out and
this thing is going to be resolved without anybody --
DAVID: Getting hurt.
HENRY; Getting hurt. That includes you.
DAVID: Except for what crimes we have to pay
for what we've committed that is that. The world so
speaks .
HENRY: And that includes you. Am I ctorrect
in assuming that --
DAVID: No, it's not an assumption. It's a
fact.
HENRY: Okay. Everybody's going to come out,
and everybody's going to be fine, and there's going to
be no shooting, and there's going to be nothing to, to
cause anybody to do anything to hurt you. I don't want
anybody to hurt you. Am I, am I correct in my
assumption?
DAVID: You're correct on that.
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: So let's, let -- I got to start
editing this and, and you got the van down there for
the children, right?
HENRY; Yes.
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DAVID: Okay. Be sure and tell them we're
coming then, all right?
HENRY: Okay. Now, now listen, listen to
what I'm going to tell you. I don't know if this van
is going to stop in exactly the same place as the other
van. It's going to be real close. The only reason
that I'm telling you that is whoever' s going to take
the kids there, you know, these are two new people,
because we've had a changing of a shift, okay? So --
DAVID: Okay. But just at the water
towers - -
HENRY: Right. Right.
DAVID: -- like it was before.
HENRY: But, but I mean, you know, they may
be 20 feet back or, or 5 feet forward from where they
parked before. I don't want her to get a concern,
whoever it is that's taking them there well, it's, they
didn't park in exactly the same place. Nothing's --
DAVID: Okay.
HENRY: -- going to happen other than what
has happened before.
DAVID: You got a radio communication, right?
HENRY: Right.
DAVID: Okay. Like I say, we'll get the kids
ready and --
HENRY: Right.
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I DAVID: Are they down there now?
j HENRY; Yes. Now what, what we're going to
need is I would like to try to start trying to find you
medical help.
DAVID: No, not yet.
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: Let's get the other done.
HENRY: Yes, we'll get -- no, I mean that's
fine. And I understand that. And I'm not saying, you
know, I'm going to send anybody in there. I want start
preparing to have something ready for you after you do
your tape
and all
of that . Okay?
DAVID:
Okie doke.
HENRY:
Okay.
DAVID:
Okay. Now I need
to -- going to send
the kids.
HENRY:
Okay.
DAVID:
He's going to get
the equipment set
up.
HENRY:
Okay.
DAVID;
I'm going to drink
a little orange
juice, get my breath up a bit. When I, when I cough,
oh, man. I'll tell you. Anyway never mind.
HENRY; How much time do you think you have?
DAVID; Well, see it's, it's like I get, I
get renewed.
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HENRY; Uh-huh.
DAVID: You know, and then, you know, the
pain and all of a sudden I get where it's like
something's developing in my chest. It's like -- I
don't know. It's, it's kind of like a -- it's hot a
cold it's --
HENRY: Like an infection?
DAVID: I don't know if it's an infection or
not. It's just -- I don't know. It's just a -- it's
kind of like you know how you feel when you feel like
you're fixing to get the flu?
HENRY: Yes.
DAVID: Something like that.
HENRY: Well, are you sure you, are you
sure --
DAVID: You know, you go up and down.
HENRY: Are you sure you don't want us to
send you some medical help?
DAVID: No, not yet. Let's, let's --
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID; -- we're on a good road right now.
That's what I've been trying to --
HENRY; Okay.
DAVID; -- that's what I was trying to work
with Jim all along.
HENRY; Okay.
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DAVID: You know, I was trying to get a trust
in him to see if he would, you know, really let me get
these kids out, you know, the way I wanted to get them
out .
- HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: And he's been very good to me.
HENRY: Okay. Well --
DAVID: And --
HENRY: --we want to, we want to continue in
that same vein. We don't want to change anything or,
or make anything in such a fashion, you know. And when
you kept telling me that there was somebody in that
tower or in the roof, I knew that there wasn't anybody,
you know, because --
DAVID: We found out what it was.
HENRY: Okay. Well, we appreciate, you know,
we appreciate your trusting us. We continue to trust
you.
DAVID : ( Groaning . )
HENRY: We want to continue working in this
fashion. I would like, I would for, you know, [gap] I
would like for you to start working on that, that tape,
and I will work with you, and I want you to work With
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How are you doing?
STEVE:
I'm on the tired side.
Little bit --
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— little bit slow tonight.
HENRY;
Okay. Couple of things
I wanted to
bring up. David mentioned that he was going to try to
do that audiotape. Is he working on that?
STEVE: You know what, I, I just about 2
minutes ago I was going to go lay down for a few
minutes, and I went past him and he was almost snoring.
He, he fell asleep.
HENRY: Oh, he did?
STEVE: Yeah.
HENRY : Okay .
STEVE: So are you working on that? Or I
mean I -- or I mean have you checked or found out
anything about it or --
HENRY: Well, he said he was going to try to,
to give us a, a tape. And he had asked somebody to try
to go and get some equipment from --
STEVE; Okay. Yeah, I, I see --
HENRY; -- the recording studio.
STEVE; I see something is here right now.
So that's apparently what it's part of.
HENRY: Okay. Is, is he -- I really have a
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earlier.
STEVE; Uh-huh.
HENRY: And, but, you know, part of the
problem is like he said every time that he coughs or
laughs or something like that that he feels that he
starts bleeding again.
STEVE: He said that?
HENRY: Yes, he, he did. And the problem is
if he is feeling -- if there is internal bleeding, see,
when, when that coagulates, that's going to cause him
some serious problems. It's been a long time since,
since he suffered that wound, and we need to try to get
him some medical help.
STEVE: Well [gap] for, for what they're
telling me I guess -- hello?
HENRY: Yes [gap] .
STEVE: [gap] Oh, something -- I don't know
what's -- what's happening I wonder?
HENRY: Yeah.
STEVE: Is that at your end or --
HENRY; No, it's probably at your end.
STEVE; Well, there's nobody around the, the
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HENRY: Um-hum.
STEVE: Okay. Okay, you were, you were
saying, yeah. Oh, I tell you what. I'm just so worn
out I'm having a hard time even talking here.
HENRY: Okay. Well, let me, let me say this.
The, the two --or the lady that brought the, the last
two kids indicated that their car is almost out of
gasoline.
STEVE: Oh, it is.
HENRY: So she said or she asked if we could
bring some gasoline on the next, you know, when we do
the next exchange. Can you get a couple of kids ready
so we can pick them up and --
STEVE; Yeah, let, let me find out then. I
guess I haven't been with it just too long here. I was
starting to lay down there and I was -- let me find out
what they're doing, and I'll try to do that, okay?
HENRY;
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STEVE: So have you made progress with doing
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HENRY: Yes. As a matter of fact, I mean we,
we encoi^jtered some difficulty but, but --
STEVE : Yeah .
HENRY; What we're trying to do is because he
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STEVE: Uh-huh.
HENRY: -- we're trying to react in exactly
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STEVE: Yeah.
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Christian Broadcasting Network.
STEVE: The National Christian Broadcasting
Network?
HENRY: Yes, which has several thousand radio
stations throughout the country.
STEVE: Okay.
HENRY: Now that is, is based in Phoenix,
Arizona.
STEVE: In Phoenix, Arizona.
HENRY; But, you know, their headquarters.
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could leave him maybe sleep for 1 hour?
HENRY: Okay. But, but I have a concern,
Steve. And the
STEVE: Yeah.
HENRY: -- concern that I have, you know, is
that, you know, his health may be deteriorating. Okay,
so --
STEVE: There's, there's -- right now there's
a nurse over here. And she says leave him sleep for
the moment --
HENRY: Okay.
STEVE: -- just to regain, regain at least a
little strength here.
HENRY: Okay. That's --
STEVE; And then she said she wants there
herself asking if, if they can't do something in that
area. She was just whispering over here to me. So I,
I think between her and I we're going to ask them about
that, you know, getting that kind of attention or
something, or see if there's more that could be done to
help out there.
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provide that, but —
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HENRY: Okay? And I want you to be thinking
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know, for the entire group is probably going to shift
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STEVE: I see.
HENRY: And, and, you )cnow, I know there's an
awful lot of people there. A lot of children.
STEVE : Right .
HENRY : We want to between you and us ,
between you and me, we need to try to coordinate this
so that we can effect what --
STEVE: Right.
HENRY: -- David and I initiated and that is
everybody's coming out.
STEVE: Okay. Is there any way then -- can,
can you call me back in an hour?
HENRY ; Sure .
STEVE: Oh, that would be great. Because I
think what I'm going to do is even lay down here, and
I'm going to have somebody here wake me up then. Or
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give you the gasoline for that car that, that that lady
was asking about?
STEVE: Well, she said he never -- he passed
out before he gave the next couple that were to be
going. So I don't know what to really do right now.
Can, can we just wait for 1 hour?
HENRY: Okay. Does --
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RACHEL: Just a minute. Steve. Steve. Who
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HENRY: This is Henry. Who's this.
RACHEL: I'm sorry. I couldn't understand
you.
HENRY: Henry.
RACHEL : Henry .
HENRY: Who's this?
RACHEL: Oh, it's Rachel.
HENRY: Hi, Rachel. How you doing?
RACHEL: Okay.
HENRY: How's everybody doing in there?
RACHEL: I guess okay.
HENRY: How's David?
RACHEL: Well, he looks okay. Looks like
he's - -
HENRY: He looks okay?
RACHEL: Looks like he's sleeping.
HENRY: Okay. Who is the nurse in there
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RACHEL: Which nurse is it?
HENRY: Yeah.
RACHEL: I don't know.
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concern. And we wanted to see if we could talk to her
so that --
RACHEL: Looks like she's waking up.
HENRY: Oh, okay.
RACHEL: Here.
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DAVID: This Harry?
HENRY: David?
DAVID: Yeah. Is this Harry?
HENRY: This is Henry.
DAVID: Henry. Oh -- sorry.
HENRY; How are you doing?
DAVID: Okay.
HENRY: Are you in pain?
DAVID: (Gasping.) Oh, it's almost a funny
question. But, oh, wait a second. Let me look --
okay. All right. Are the children there yet?
HENRY; Yes, they are. You want to talk to
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DAVID: Course, little Jamie can't talk so.
HENRY: Um-hum. We want to confirm that
you're going to be making that tape, okay?
DAVID: Yeah. I was just trying to get some
rest
HENRY: Yeah.
DAVID: --to get my strength up.
HENRY: Okay. Okay. I can understand that.
Do you -- I don't know if Steve had a chance to, to
talk to you. But, you know, we're working something
out. And because, because you are serious, very
serious about this, we want to approach it from the
same, you know, with that same seriousness. Okay?
DAVID: Oh, yeah.
HENRY: And what we'd like to do is we are
trying to not present this to somebody that's, that's
going to take it lightly but rather whom we are trying
to contact as a matter of fact as we speak is the
National Christian Broadcasting Network. Okay?
DAVID: All right.
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID; All right. Okay. Where's,
where's -- which -- where is that located at?
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DAVID: What's the subsidiary station here
locally?
HENRY: That I don't know. I know that they
have several thousand radio stations throughout the
country. But, you know --
DAVID: The Station everybody's listening to
right now is KRLD, right?
HENRY: Yeah. But that's, that's local.
DAVID; I know --
HENRY; We're trying to get you something
number one that's religious.
DAVID: Exactly.
HENRY: That's, that's serious.
DAVID: Exactly.
HENRY: Number two that has national
exposure .
DAVID: Okay.
HENRY: Now the -- you know, as you know,
that one of, one of the concerns that I have is here
you are very serious, okay. And some of these people
are calling you -- I don't even want to tell you what
they're calling you. Okay? I mean it's something that
you don't like. Okay? So I thought it would be --
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begin to show the difference between the way I perceive
the seals and what, in, in difference to what we've
heard the seals being presented thus far by all so-
called teachers and religious leaders that have been
calling the radio stations.
HENRY: Uh-huh.
DAVID: So that way people will be able to
honestly listen and read their Bibles as they're
listening and see that I know what I'm talking about.
HENRY: Exactly.
DAVID: And then they'll make a decision from
what they themselves have seen and heard from their own
Bible. And then like I say, then I'm in your hands.
HENRY: Okay. One of the concerns that I
have, okay, is I'm talking to some people, some medical
people. And what -- I don't like what I'm hearing.
And what I'm hearing is that, you know, remember when
we were talking earlier and you coughed, okay. You
told me that you thought that you might be bleeding.
If you
DAVID : Yeah, when I cough I bleed.
HENRY: Okay. Now do you, do you think that
you're bleeding internally? Probably, right?
DAVID: Well, the hole is right here next to
the belly. And it, it hit me in the, the pelvic, and
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HENRY: Yeah. Well, see --
DAVID: And then the --
HENRY: What, what I'm, what I'm being told;
is that when you're hemorrhaging and then you're blood
clots, okay, it creates a problem, because internally
somebody's going to have to deal with it. You've
been -- this is a long time ago that this occurred. We
need to try to move things along so that you can get
some medical assistance before you start having a lot
<51fficulty, you know, and, and you start going into
shock or something like that.
DAVID: Well, I was in shock when I first got
hit I thought.
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: But like I say when -- I'm going to
make this tape and, and I'm going to -- when we send
the kids out to you I'm going to send that tape with
them. And you'll just have to -- this will play, this
will play tomorrow sometimes, right?
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HENRY: -- you know, we can play it tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be fine. Now, you know, if you have e
problem, -.if you have -- or if you're not happy with the
National Christian Broadcasting Network, we can go to
KRLD. I mean I don't have any problems going with
whomever you want.
DAVID: Well, that's like I say if it's a
national coverage then other stations will pick it up,
HENRY : Sure .
DAVID: And KRLD will probably more than
happy want to play it. Because they've, they've been
wondering what's happened to me anyway.
HENRY: Okay. Well, I don't have any
problems making them a copy and giving them a copy or
whatever you'd like.
DAVID: Would you, would you make a
correction for KRLD and then those things for me?
HENRY; Okay.
DAVID: Let's see. They keep saying we have
eight kids out. Let's see, we got l, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,
12, 14, 16 children. And they need to, they need to
understand we got 16 children out.
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Lahara .
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Slow down, all right? Okay. Lahara.
HENRY: Lahara.
DAVID: Okay. You already got that down?
HENRY: Um-hum.
DAVID: Renee.
HENRY : Renee .
DAVID: Okay. Angelica.
HENRY: Angelica.
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HENRY : Janessa .
DAVID: Patron.
HENRY: Patron.
DAVID: Yeah. Keep going. (Unidentified
voices in background not discernible.) Let me see.
Let me see that list. (Groaning.) Okay. Oh, are you
saying these here are listed twice?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Yeah.
DAVID: No, they're not. No, these are the
first ones we sent out. That's why they wrote the
names over there.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: -- we listed
them (indiscernible) .
DAVID:
No, you didn't. There's Chrissy.
HENRY:
Chrissy.
DAVID:
Brian .
HENRY;
Brian .
DAVID:
Scott .
HENRY:
Scott .
DAVID;
Jake.
HENRY:
Jake.
DAVID:
And you already got Joshua and Jamie
So
that's -- (unidentified female voice in background
not
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-- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, -- okay, 6, 7,
B,
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been saying anyway how many --
HENRY; I, I think we only have 14. I think
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you said 16, but I think we have 14.
DAVID: Oh, boy. I tell you. I mean, I may
be corrected on them. But like I say, I got a big long
list here and --
- HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: — we're marking them off little by
little and -- okay. All right. So -- (groaning) --
all right, then so I'm going to start -- where's,
where's Greg and them? They still -- where's Steve?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: Sleeping.
DAVID: Is he sleeping around the corner?
Oh, anyway. Here, here Larry. Here's -- this guy will
let you talk to Josh.
LORRAINE: Hello?.
HENRY: Hello?
LORRAINE: Hello? This is Joshua's mother.
HENRY: Oh, okay. Hold on a second. Let me
get --
LORRAINE: Okay. Thauik you.
HENRY; What's your name?
LORRAINE ; Lorraine .
HENRY: Lorraine? Okay. Hold on, Lorraine.
Let me get the -- Joshua. How are you doing?
LORRAINE: I'm doing fine. Thank you.
HENRY; Good.
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HENRY: He's coming right up, Lorraine. Hold
on just a second.
LORRAINE: Okay.
HENRY : {Whispering . ) Say hi .
- JOSHUA: Hi.
LORRAINE; Hi, honey. You doing okay?
JOSHUA: Yeah.
LORRAINE: Okay. You be a good soldier, all
right?
JOSHUA: Okay.
LORRAINE: Okay. I love you, honey.
JOSHUA: Okay.
LORRAINE: Okay, sweetheart.
JOSHUA: Bye.
LORRAINE: Bye. Yeah, they'll feed you.
(Unidentified male voice in background not
discernible. )
JOSHUA: What?
LORRAINE; Yeah, he knows that. He already
said they won't feed me no -- yeah, you tell them no
pork, honey, right? Do you hear Mommy?
JOSHUA; Uh-huh.
LORRAINE: Okay, sweetheart. Be a good boy,
okay?
JOSHUA: Okay.
LORRAINE; Okay. I love you. Wait, hang on
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Did you get to play with them?
JOSHUA: No.
LORRAINE: No? Oh, maybe you will. What,
what about the other kids that left? You didn't see
them?
JOSHUA: Dh-uh.
LORRAINE: The ones that just left, no?
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I love
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LORRAINE: Okay, I'm going to put David back
on, okay?
HENRY: That's fine.
LORRAINE; Okay. Thank you.
HENRY: Thank you. (Unidentified female
voice in background not discernible.)
DAVID: Okay. All right, thanks. Okay.
HENRY: David, one of the things that we need
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to work out if, if we can is we have -- when we made
that last exchange the ladies that brought the, the
kids over said that their car was running out of
gasoline, and they wondered if we could get them some
gasoline.^
DAVID: Wait a second.
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: Said something about their car being
out of gasoline? Oh, it is? (Unidentified voices in
background not discernible . ) Oh that, that little car,
you know, it goes a long ways just on a -- well, we --
she said
HENRY: So what --
DAVID: -- that she talked to the girl, Mary.
But the thing of it is, is that -- how low is, how
close to empty is it? (Unidentified female voice in
background not discernible.)
HENRY: David?
DAVID: Yes.
HENRY: What, what we've done is we've gotten
a, you know, 5, 5 gallons worth of gasoline. We got a
gas tank full of —
DAVID: Oh.
HENRY: And when they, we make the next
exchange we'll just fill it up. We'll, we'll pour the
5 gallons of gasoline in the car. Okay?
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DAVID: Okay. All right. Thanks. I
appreciate that.
HENRY: Okay.
DAVID: I don't -- well, it's too late to get
a phone mow so.
HENRY: What?
DAVID: Oh, we -- see we have a lot of --
what we had to do is because I couldn't move and our
phone was, was way down in a different part of the
building, we had to scrounge up all kinds of phone
cords and piece them together to stretch them across
the building to, to get to where I am.
HENRY: Uh-huh.
DAVID: So we could have a phone here.
HENRY: Oh, okay, so you need a
DAVID ; So I had asked, I had, you know, I
had sent some money to Jim, and I'd asked him, you
know, to, you know, take care of the kids with that.
But --
HENRY: Um-hum.
DAVID: -- I'd also asked him to if he could
If he could just like have someone pick up, you know,
half, you know, nothing real fancy, just a straight
phone from Radio Shack or something with approximately
150 feet or so of, of telephone cable.
HENRY: Okay. Well, that's - you know, I, i
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have a note here to get, to get a telephone cord, I
didn't know what exactly that was.
DAVID: Yeah.
HENRY: Okay. That'S what you need. You,
you need- - -
DAVID: Yeah. Not the, the kind that twist
around and around, you know, the, the straight stuff,
you know. I need a lot of it. And the longer pieces
we can get the better , because then we don ' t have so
many connections we have to make.
HENRY; Okay. Now you want that -- that's
like, like an inside cord, right?
DAVID; Yes, sir.
HENRY: Okay. Let me work on that. I'll
probably get that as soon as, as --
DAVID: They've got it at Radio Shack.
They've got like, you know, they even got like 50 feet
sections, you know. So --
HENRY: Okay. Let me ask you this. When I
spoke to Steve he was, he was concerned, you know,
about your health as we all are, okay? But he's -- he
has a concern about making any decisions. Are you
trying to prepare him --do you think it might be wise
to, to -- is somebody calling? Hello?
DAVID; Hello?
HENRY; Yeah. That is Steve -- are you
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working towards preparing Steve to take over some of
the responsibility? Because I feel that you're getting
weaker, okay? And, and you have a lot of
responsibility on your shoulders, okay?
_ DAVID: Well, that's what I was telling Jitn.
I was telling Jim, I said look, Jim, I teach my
students from the very first day that they meet me I
tell them, I say hey, look, do you want to learn the
seals? And they don't even know what that is at first,
most of them. So I tell them look, would you like to
learn something about Jesus Christ --
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